i want to talk about these awful, awful tragic events that happened in paris yesterday. we are all aware of the awful massacre, and we need to say prayers. the families that have been brutally victimized by these terrorists. you may have seen that this wasn't just an attack on france or paris, this is an attack on freedom and free people everywhere. including right here at ome. you may have seen the french president declared a national state of emergency and close to their borders. [applause] folks, it is time for us here in america to secure our borders and to keep our people safe as well from these radical people -- evil terrorists. cheers and applause] it is time for us to be honest about the enemy that we face. how can we defeat this enemy when we have a president who won't even be honest about the threat we face? we need a president with more honesty to tell us, look, we don't need political

correctness. we don't need a president apologizing. we need a president who will say this: islam has a problem. radical islam. it is not enough to condemn generic acts of violence. they must make it clear and name these individuals by name and say that they are not martyrs. if you kill in the name of islam, you are not a martyr. you are not going to enjoy a reward in the afterlife, but rather you are going straight to ell, where you belong. cheers and applause] but today, we have a foreign policy were our friends don't trust us, our enemies don't fear nd respect us. illary clinton, the only thing

she has ever run is this president's failed foreign policy. the president went to the pentagon several weeks ago and said we can't win this conflict with the guns. we will have to change hearts and minds. folks, this is an evil comic evil enemy. -- evil, evil enemy. mr. president, sometimes it does take guns. and sometimes you've got to kill evil terrorists before they come ere and kill us first. ou know, i have talked a lot about the challenges facing our country, both domestic and abroad. i am here to tell you that i still believe our best days are ahead of us. i still believe we are blessed to live in the greatest country in the history of the world. you know, it is not inevitable. our 40th president ronald reagan

reminded us that we lived in that shining city on the hill. but he reminded us that any generation -- every generation of americans must renew for you reminded us that every generation of americans must renew for themselves those principles of freedom. previous generations spilled blood and chatted a cash and tragedy to give us the freedom we have inherited. the hour is late but not too late for america. i wanted to be known that when that day comes, we did everything possible to save the idea of america will stop is a what you is about whether we america the idea of slip away. [applause] the idea of america has done more to fight for freedom and defenseless than any other civilization in the history of the world. [applause] .> shame on those

in d.c. giving away the idea of america. shame on us if we let them do it. as long as i have breath in my body, i will fight to save the idea of america but i cannot do it alone. i'm here to ask you to join a cause. my dad taught me americans can do anything. then and i believe it now. i think you believe that as well. [applause] >> i think you have been frustrated these seven years that you also believe our best days are ahead of us and you want to believe again we are blessed to be in the greatest country in the history of the world. but a lifelong conservative i'm actually angrier at the republicans this evening then i am at the democrats this evening. [applause]

>> at least the democrats are honest. us he's aders tells socialist. the republicans tell you one thing and they get elected and do another. they told us give them the majority. and given them obamacare, amnesty. volunteered, donated, got the majority. what happened? nothing. they've are ready given up on defund planned parenthood and stop the iran deal. [applause] thistold you i couldn't do without your help. i'm here to ask you to believe again. i know with your help and with god's grace, we will and we can

be victorious. it's time to take our country --k from the spectral special interest, time to stand up and rescue the idea of the american dream, time to send a message that we will not allow iran to be a nuclear power, time to send a message to our children. leave for them the same freedom and opportunity are parents left for us that brought my parents here 40 years ago. it's time to believe again in the idea of america. god bless you and thank you very, very much for coming out today. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] ♪

mr. paul: thank you. thank you. ♪ thank you. [applause] i just came down from new hampshire, and i'm reading a book about hamilton and jefferson. they have a quote from hamilton he says, "the national debt is a public blessing." [laughter] thomas jefferson sort of response that really it is more of a curse than a blessing. we still have some of the same discussion going on in the republican party and in our country. we have a discussion, we have hamiltonian's and we have jeffersonians still in our party. i think the debt is a great threat. [applause] it won't surprise you that some disagree, and some think that, well, it doesn't matter where we -- what we borrow the money for, but if we spend it on advancing the military, it is fine.

i guess the problem i have is that if you are going to spend $1 trillion of new money that is going to be added to the debt, does that make us stronger or weaker? >> weaker. mr. paul: admiral mullen, career officer, said that he thinks the biggest threat to our national security is our debt, and i agree with him. i don't think we project strength from brink of secord. i think the further we get into debt, the further danger there is that we might destroy the currency, we might destroy the country. so this is a debate we are going to have paid now we have staring us in the face this terrible tragedy in paris. we think to ourselves, what are we going to do, how are we going to defend our country, how will we be safe? one of the things i think we

have to learn and one of the lessons we should learn from the tragedy in paris is that we have to be very careful and very cautious, extraordinarily cautious, about who comes to visit, immigrants here, and who studies here. [cheering] [applause] once upon a time after 9/11, we had a program that had extra scrutiny for those are wanted to visit us. i am all for that. in fact, i tried to be instituted this. president obama canceled it. the one thing president obama came up with was canceling a program of those who scrutinize those who come to visit us. but i try to reintroduce this. you will recall there was an immigration bill, rubio and schumer. so i put forward an amendment called trust but verify, because the biggest problem to all types of immigration reform is people say, oh, we are going to secure the border, and it never comes. we leave it up to the president, if you republican presidents, and it never comes. so i had an amendment that said, you know what, we will check up

on the president. we will have a check and a balance. and each year, congress will vote on whether or not the border is secure. i also put in this amendment, the increased scrutiny for those want to come here as students or visiting or immigrating. particularly from about 25 countries -- you can guess which ones. the thing is that those who came and attacked us on 9/11, they were here on student visas, they overstayed their visas, we didn't know they were here. two of them were on the watch list. the cia knew they were in san diego, but the fbi didn't for some reason. so we let -- we let our guard down. but when i introduced my amendment to the immigration bill, unfortunately i got some opposition. your senator, in fact, opposed me on this.

i tried to pass something that i think was a conservative proposition to the immigration bill that would've had more scrutiny for refugee, for visitors, for students. one of the reasons i became very concerned about this is that i live in a little town in kentucky, in bowling green, and we had two people come from iraq, refugees -- still try to figure out how you have people seeking political asylum when we won the war -- [laughter] but they came to bowling green and then decided to buy surface-to-air missiles to attack us. we caught them, fortunately, it i'm asking the question: who in the hell is in charge of scrutinizing these people? [applause] so my an amendment would have required fingerprinting, background checks, and extensive scrutiny of those who are coming to visit us. [applause]

i thought this would get conservative support because i think we do need to know who is coming and who is going across our border. i thought it would have made the immigration bill much stronger. but here is what happened, and this is not widely known, but there was a deal made between marco rubio and chuck schumer, somewhat of a seagull deal -- secret to deal, but also somewhat well-known now. they agreed to block all amendments from conservatives. so what you wound up with was a bill that no conservative could support. but to me, it is also about national security. because when we look at our border, you can't have a wide open border. you do have to have control of your border if you are going to be a nation. [applause] some will say, it doesn't matter, we don't like you because you want to spend $1 trillion more than what we are spending. guess what? we already spend over $600 billion on the military, including another $40 billion on

homeland security. what i'm saying is let's spend it wisely, but let's don't add to the debt to do this because the debt is dragging us down. in fact, there is a secret -- [applause] there is sort of an unholy alliance going on in washington, and this is really -- rush limbaugh put it while the other day, he said republicans are losing their high moral ground. we can no longer blame it on the democrats because, guess what, both parties are now the problem. we raised the debt ceiling -- [applause] we raised the debt ceiling, and -- ceiling an unspecified amount. mr. president, you can raise it as much as you want until march 2017. so i kept him awake until 3:00 in the morning, filibustering against it. [cheering] [applause]

i can tell you they were less than happy with me, and i heard a few words that i cannot reveal on the national stage as they walked by my desk. there were quite a few epithets being hurled at me because they were unhappy at being there at 3:00 in the morning. i said, look, the country is worth us having a debate over this. [applause] and i told them, i said, you go outside the beltway -- this was at 2:00 in the morning -- i said, you drive outside the beltway and you stop at the first grocery store, you stop at the first convenience store gas station, and you introduce yourself to the first person you meet and you ask them, is it a good idea to raise the debt ceiling and raise the spending at the same time? it is like giving the college kid who has $2000 of debt on their credit card, giving them more credit. who does that? we need to reform our spending. and then what they will tell you, here is what you get from

the establishment. the establishment says, oh, well, we don't have the votes and we will have to have a republican president. when i was elected in 2010, there was this big tea party tidal wave. we came in, but all we took was the house. we didn't take the senate, but we had a debt ceiling vote. we had a debt ceiling vote, and the president said, i will not negotiate with a gun to my head. and then he promptly negotiated. and we got what was called the sequester. the sequester has been missed described by most in the media. it was not a cut in spending, but a slowdown in the rate of both of spending. the government was still growing, but at a slower rate and it was at least something positive. we got that with only one republican house. now we have a republican house, a republican senate, and we've got squat.

we went the wrong direction. [cheering] [applause] what has happened up there is many of the members have become like furniture. all right? in your shop. status quo. the only way you will ever fix it is we need term limits for everybody. [cheering] [applause] people ask me, they say, what is the worst thing the president has done? i say, how long do you have? [laughter] but really what i think it all is, it is not just obamacare, the banking regulations, if i'm going to sum it all up in one statement i would say it is the collapse of the separation of powers. [applause] you remember what he said? he said, i've got my pen and i

forgot my phone, and by golly, he is going to do what he wants. time and time again. the separation of powers was one of the most important things that our founders gave to us. in fact, madison put it this way, he said we would have code equal branches of government, they would check and balance each other, and we would pit ambition against ambition. ambition of congress to want more power would be pitted against the president who wanted more power, and they would check and balance each other. but if i had to give you an estimate of the way washington works now, i would say the president has 1000 fold more power than congress. why? because you have a congress that rules over, plays dead, and has become an inconsequential. [cheering] [applause] we have the power to control spending right now. spending expires at the end of the year. automatically, it is in the law.

so what happens when spending expires? let it all expire until the democrats they've got to restart it. do you know what it would take? how many people would rather defund planned parenthood? [cheering] [applause] planned parenthood goes away if we let it expire. and then to restart it, if the other side wants to refund planned parenthood or any of a thousand waste will programs, they would have to have a majority in the house and 60 votes in the senate. see, they are not being honest with you. they are saying we can't defund everything -- anything because we can get 60 votes. it all expires automatically if we will let the spending expire, and a second later we can restart it. what needs to be restarted. tell the democrats they need 60 votes to fund planned parenthood. [applause] [cheering] [applause] when we look at the problems that we face, and we look at who we are going to choose as our

next commander in chief, i am reminded of what i think is probably the worst candle of the last eight years, and that is benghazi. it isn't the movie, it isn't the spin afterwards. politicians are almost uniformly disco -- dishonest. but what gets me about benghazi more than anything else is that time after time, maybe a dozen times, hillary clinton was asked for more security and it was denied. in the spring of that year, she began sending people home. she began telling our troops over there not to wear their boots because we were defending the freedom fighters in libya. told them not to care their weapons because guns are

dangerous and we don't want to -- we don't want to show the freedom fighters that we think we need guns. she sent home a special forces team of six guys in february. she sent home another special forces team in march. in april, they requested the use of a plane. denied. do you remember on the night of attack -- the attack what happened? there was no plane. our guys had to have too big for the use of a libyan plane. we had to beg them to fly our own damn plane. the day she turns down the plane, three days later she approves $100,000 for an electrical charging station for the chevy volt for our vienna embassy. it seems they were greening of the embassy. believe it or not, this is what is going on. maybe we don't need to green up all this stuff. [applause]

[cheering] [applause] if you've got to wave -- weigh your defense of ben ghazi -- benghazi versus but charging station for your embassy, my goodness. i began listing the things she spent the money on. the summer before our ambassador was killed, they spent $700,000 on the landscaping for the brussels embassy. they spent $100,000 sending three comedians to india on the make chai, not war tour. they spent $500,000 and facebook ads. it seems they don't have enough friends, so they want you to like them. they spent $5 million on crystal barware and glassware for the embassies, but didn't have enough money to defend them in benghazi. the ambassador is standing --

sending plea after plea. now he is sending cables from himself to hillary clinton. when she came into my committee and said, you know, she didn't know anything about this. did you read the cables, that is what i asked her, did you read the cables from the ambassador? and she said no and asked all huffy like she was too busy to read them. do you know what i tell her? by her in action, she should forever be precluded from being commander-in-chief. [cheering] [applause] thank you. some people will ask, how are we going to have money to defend ourselves if you are not willing to go into debt for it?

first, we spent $600 billion, more than the next 10 countries combined. there is a lot of money. quit wasting it. i will give you an area we might not want to spend more money. i say spend not one penny for countries who are persecuting christians around the world. [cheering] [applause] you would think that would pass, right? i introduced an amendment in the foreign relations committee that says no money for any country that persecute christians. any country that has a death penalty for criticizing a state religion. you know what state religion we are talking about here. the vote was 18-2 against me. i took all that money and put it into the fence so we can protect ourselves. and some people say, surely no

one is putting christians to death. there are not many christians left in pakistan. she went to draw water from the well, and they began starting her and beating her. she was bleeding and on her knees, crying out for help. she was a christian and a muslim visio -- village. finally, the police arrive and she thinks she has been saved. only to be arrested. she has been on death row in pakistan for five years. and yet we continue to give billions of dollars of our money -- in fact, we don't even have that money. we bow to that money from china to send it to pakistan. there is so much within our government that we could save money with and put to our defense without saying we are going to spend $1 trillion we

have -- we don't have by borrowing it. we still have a debate in our party between the hamiltonians and the jeffersonians. those who believe in limited government, balanced budget, who believe in the safety of the country only comes when you spend what comes in and you don't go further into debt. this debate goes on. this is a debate i think our party needs to have. it could be done in a polite fashion, but we need to have this. can we go further into debt, or will that harm us as a country? this is a debate we need to have. as we move forward, and we think about what we want to project to the american people and what is the message we can project that can win the country and beat hillary clinton, i think of the painter by the name of robert, and he had this message to young painters. he said, paint like a man coming over the hills singing. i think when we proclaim our

message, when we proclaim our message with passion that we are going to defend the entire bill of rights, that we are going to be the party of justice, when we proclaim that message with hope and optimism, and when we proclaim that message like a man coming over the hills singing, then we are going to be the dominant party. we are going to rock 'n roll to victory. and that is what i want to be a part of. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. [applause] ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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>> tomorrow como road to the white house coverage continues. from martin o'malley and hillary clinton and .ernie sanders throug at 4:00 and i'm :00 eastern on c-span. and 9:00 eastern on c-span. we continue with republican presidential speeches from the second day of the florida republican party sunshine summit. andng up, chris christie john kasich as well as carly fiorina.

mr. christie: thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you for having me here today. you know, over 14 years ago on september 10, 2001, i was named united states attorney by president george w. bush. the next day, my wife, mary, did what she had been doing for years. she left her home at 6:00 in the morning, headed to the train station with a train that would eventually bring her to the world trade center. she walked through the world trade center at 7:30 that morning to her office building, two blocks away from the world trade center. it was september 11, 2001. i took the day off from work because i was getting ready to start a new job and i brought my

children to school. on a beautiful, cloudless day in the state where i was born and raised. when i got home, the first plane had hit the first building and i called my wife. she told me there was nothing to worry about. she could see the fire from out her window. they told her it was a small commuter plane. and all would be fine. while we were on the phone discussing what our plans were for the day and her making sure that i remembered to pick up the children from school, the second plane hit the second building. her bosses told her she had to evacuate to the basement of her building immediately and for the next five and a half hours, i didn't hear from her. at that time, we had three children, an 8-year-old son, a 5-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son. and as the hours passed and the buildings fell and the death toll mounted and i didn't hear

from my wife, i knew two things. one, that when my children came home from school, the first thing they were going to ask me is where's mom? and the second thing i thought about was what would my life be like without my best friend and as a single parent of three? fortunately for me and for our children, mary came out alive. but that night, one of our friends from our parish who she had got an job for after he had become unemployed was not home. the job she had gotten him was in the world trade center. we went and sat with his wife and he replicated what was going on all throughout our region that night. she sat and said to us i'm sure frank is fine. i'm sure he's just in the hospital somewhere. i'm sure i'm going to hear from him soon.

of course, he never came home and days later, we went to his funeral and the parish, jim, is now named in his honor. you see, for me, being seven years as the u.s. attorney in new jersey immediately after september 11, terrorism is not theoretical. it's not something that i discuss in the basement of the capital in the subcommittee meeting. i went to the funerals. i saw the carnage. and it was my job in the days, weeks, months, and years after that to make sure that it never happens again. i'm honored to have had that job. and honored to be one of the folks that contributed to making sure in the next seven years, it didn't happen again. and i fear as a nation that we've begun to lose our focus, lose our focus on how we felt in the days after september 11, how fearful we were, how at risk we

felt. we took for granted the safety and security that was provided by us, to us by a government that understood its first and most important job, was to provide for the safety and the security of the american people. so i originally thought what i was thinking about this yesterday and coming to speak to all of you that i would do what i normally do. i would get a handheld microphone. i would wander around the stage, i would talk to you about my vision for america's future and its economy, education, job, and our national security. tell a few jokes and have a good time with you. but i thought last night as i watched the television and the unfolding events that that was not the appropriate speech for someone who's asking you to be

the leader of our country to give on a day like today. and so i took to my thoughts and unusually for me, i put them down on paper. so i hope you forgive me because i think the time is too serious and the moment is too grave to be giving off some canned stump speeches i've been giving in iowa and new hampshire. i want to speak to you from my heart for the last 24 hours that i have seen. we have seen evil visited upon innocent people once again. france is in shock. still coming to grips with the death of their countrymen. we stand with them and we pray for them in this time of national mourning. but our outrage must turn into action and resolve. [applause] now, isis warned us that they could commit unspeakable carnage and now they have. for decades now, we have seen that wherever islamist, jihaddists and their

sympathizers go, they leave a hideous and unfathomable trail of despair and destruction. [applause] lebanon and kenya, tanzania and london, mumbai and madrid, baghdad, manhattan, and washington, d.c., shanksville, pennsylvania, and fort hood. and now for the second time the one year, paris. we must never allow this cult of evil to take hold in our country or to live amongst us. it is the anti-this sis to be what it means to be a free american. [applause] on a day like this, we all see the desperate need for strong leadership. but what does it mean to be a strong president? see, this government was designed and built to protect american interests and if we

don't get that right, we can't truly be strong. always upholding and respecting our constitutional principles which starts with our sovereignty and our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness with terror dawns us, happiness is not possible. of course, that means law and order must be respected. and it must be respected to ensure that our way of life continues. today, we see special interests working to support our world law at our border, with a lack of drug enforcement and with executive action by the a lawless president of the united states. rest assured as president, when i take my hand off the bible, were not just words that i repeat from the chief justice. my actions will show you that i will always faithfully execute the laws of the united states, not pick and choose the ones i like and ignore the ones i don't. and i certainly won't treat the white house as mini congress or do enrons around the legislative branch. my presidency will never look like a lawless imperial presidency like the one we have right now. [applause]

whether the focus is jobs or whether it's trade, whether it's immigration or whether it's national security, our policies must be based on a clear understanding of how the world really works. not the naive assumptions of folks uninformed by experience or by history. even when the right policy is not politically correct or even when the right policy is not popular with the big political donors, a strong person, i, will have the fort attitude to follow through and do the right thing for the people who i really work for, which are the people of the united states of america.

[applause] i can guarantee now you this. i won't wake up every morning seeking the approval and the applause of the "new york times" editorial page or the harvard faculty and i won't get it anyway. my sole focus if you give me the chance to be your president will be to do the people's will. by removing government barriers to prosperity, by enforcing our laws, by protecting our home land and by preserving our freedom. [applause] now for the past 15 years, there have been some really good people in washington who have been trying to do the right things. but unfortunately for many of them, they didn't understand what the world was really like. but with my experience as a federal prosecutor, as a governor of a state that i

lovingly called unruly, and through my life experience as a husband and a father and a son and a brother, i understand that my sacred obligation as president will be protecting the american interests. because if we don't care for ourselves, no one else will. [applause] there are all too many people in the global business that are not really interested in america as a nation state anymore. they're interested in building a different global order that will protect their economic interests, their philosophical interests, not in building a strong america that will protect the american interests. \[applause] now, i will not be governed by the public opinion polls. i will not be governed by the united nations and you can bet i won't be governed by the washington elites. [applause] see, the way i see this is this nation is our home. this is where our children are born. this is where our grandparents

are buried. this must be our top priority. it means more than just paying lip service to securing our borders. it means more than just paying lip service to this issue of immigration. i come at it from a law and order perspective. our borders must be sealed. our laws must be enforced and if we did it, we wouldn't have 12 million here that are illegally in this country right now. and worse yet or an afternoon like this afternoon, we wouldn't be worried about isis slipping across our borders to perform unspeakable acts of violence on the american people. [applause] now, we want our thomas be safe and comfortable. we want our homes to be an environment where our families reach their full potential. and this is what we have to have. for our homeland, for our country. the u.s. government must be returned to being on your side, not working against your interests. today, that's just not the case.

ronald reagan said i want to drive in the american interest, not of the interest of the elite. that try to make that is global village. [applause] national security is not a privilege or an option. national security is a fundamental right that the american president must understand is his first and most important priority. some people think that any trade deal negotiated by these global economic interests is something that we must sign on to. let's be clear. i disagree. some people believe that borders are outdated, that they don't believe in the nation state anymore. they really believe in a post-american world, even an anti-american mindset. most of us utterly reject that. we recoil from it and we must continue to as a people.

[applause] we have to put the interest of average americans off the -- off of the back burner and on to the front burner and we have to stop -- stop worrying about first and foremost, what others think. but we must first and foremost put the interests of our neighbors, our friends, our children, and our grandchildren and the american president must go into the oval office of 2017 with the front of their mind and i pledge you, that is at the front of mine. [applause] i really do believe that washington has properly led and

properly reformed and properly run. can and will serve the interests of the people. and i'll tolerate nothing less as president of the united states. i've been through the fire of the most liberal, aggressive media market in america in new york city. i've been through the fire of the critics in my state, outside of my state who believe that i'm too blunt and too outspoken and too direct. let me tell you what the world is right now. a blunt and outspoke president of the united states will who lead the world again. that's what the world needs right now. we're in a political season. new, new can be exciting and attractive. until that is, you need experience. experience of taming the bureaucracy. experience in facing down one's adversaries. experience in formulating policies that can actually work and serve the people. remember something. this president was new in 2008. and look at what his legacy of inexperience has brought for our country. a record number of people out of

the workforce. a record number of people on disability. obama care that questioned small business, hiking your premiums and put forward the biggest lie of the first term. if you like your doctor, you can keep him. if you like your insurance plan you can keep them. they were all lies and his inexperience and his philosophies have brought those lies on the american people. [applause] his inexperience is more than doubled the national debt. his inexperience has increased, not decreased racial tensions in this country. and the bumbling inexperienced foreign policy has put america at risk again like it has not been since that day in september of 2001. just think of the things that this president had said in the past few years. he claims that our borders were more secure than they've ever

been. he claims the middle east would be safer than it's ever been. he told us al qaeda was on the run. he called isis the j.v. and just hours yesterday, before they struck in paris, he told "abc news" that his strategy was containing isis. all of these statements were a lie. he sees the world as he likes to see it, as fantasy. i see the world as it really is and it's time to have a president who sees the world that it really is, not how he wishes it would be. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, every candidate for president, every time they run likes to say that this is the most important election in our lifetime. the reason, of course, we say it, is because it's the most important election to us in our lifetime because we're running. but let me tell you this.

we cannot afford to elect another president who sees america as barack obama sees america. we cannot afford to elect another president without the reckless inexperience and values to effectively govern. this is not a job for on the job training, everybody. we need someone who's made decisions, who stuck by those decisions and who understands the ramifications not only of action, but of inaction. america is a country of action. it has become a country of reactive inaction. america will be a nation of action again and action in the interest of one goal. protecting the safety, security, and freedom of the american people. [applause] it is those truths and those values that are enshrined in our

independence and in our constitution and at times such as this, those are the truths that should be self-evident to all of us. now there are many in this room who are angry. angry about the way governments conducted themselves. you have every right to be. and then you take that anger and you want to use your vote as a chance to send a message about that anger. these times are too dire for that luxury. and the threats we are facing are too great for that act of vanity. i want you to ask yourself a few questions as you consider your vote in 2016. who among us is really prepared? based on their experience and their personality to protect the homeland? who among us has truly been tested by challenges that will prepare them for the challenges

that will greet them when they enter the oval office for the first time? who among us is the best person to aggressively prosecute the case against hillary clinton and restore the safety and security of the united states of america? the issues that you demand be addressed in this next election. i want to tell you something. and it comes from the heart. i'm tested. i'm ready. and i know that i can accomplish these things, not because i thought of them, but because i've already done them as a prosecutor and as governor. and i would be honored, truly honored, to have your vote and have the opportunity to restore american strength and security and greatness both at home, around the world. please go home tonight, turn on your televisions and watch the news. the world is desperate for a strong, secure, smart and tested american president. america needs to assert itself again on the world stage.

but we have to start at home. i want your support and your vote because i want to restore american's strength and greatness for every american that deserves it. we need a president who's ready to serve and i am ready to serve you. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] ♪

♪ mr. kasich: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. today is a much different day. it's a somber day. it's a tough day. and for me, it's really not a day of politics or promoting a candidacy. i wouldn't be comfortable with

that today. but i believe there are some things that must be said. what we saw last night, what we observed on 9/11, what we observed at fort hood, what we witnessed at chattanooga, and what we saw with the murderers who invaded charlie hebdo and last night, it was not just one isolated small group, and not just an attack that we have seen of just a lone wolf. ladies and gentlemen, we need to

understand that these attacks really represent an attack on western civilization. [applause] they represent -- the world has to recognize that this is an effort not just an attack on the theory of western civilization. this is an attack on our way of life. the way of life of everyone who celebrates the western ethic. i don't know that this is a time for political criticism or the blame game. but i must say that we as a nation, the united states of

america, has not shown leadership. we just have not shown leadership. we've had an unwillingness, an unwillingness to lead. one administration official suggested that the united states should lead from behind. if the united states of america were to continue to lead from behind, we will leave the world a much more dangerous place. today, nato should invoke article v of our nato agreement, which basically says that an attack on an ally is an attack on us and an attack on all of the western world. [applause]

we as americans must assert leadership and we need to stand shoulder to shoulder with france and the french people. this is a moment to bring us together. the president of the united states must travel to europe and the president can convene meetings with our allies to work on critical, critical intelligence operations. ladies and gentlemen, it's only through effective intelligence that we can begin to learn of threats. and there's no doubt in my mind that some of our intelligence cooperation has thwarted attackers that we've not even heard of.

but i can also suggest to you that the erosion and the trust that must be put together between us and our friends in the nato alliance and no doubt in my mind has created holes in our ability to work together and protect ourselves. critical work on intelligence matters is essential and the president of the united states should be convening our friends and our allies to develop plans for joint military action to destroy isis. to destroy isis. [applause] you know, our thoughts and our prayers go to the people of france.

but that's not enough. action is required. time is of the essence. negotiation, ambivalence or delay -- are not acceptable. negotiation, ambivalence or delay are not acceptable. one more time, i must say not just to those in this hall, but across this country and across this globe, our way of life. my precious twin daughters will be 16 in january, a precious way of life is at risk. immediately, we should enforce the no-fly zone in syria. our arab allies and friends must provide sanctuary. our ally arab allies and friends must provide sanctuary for those displaced by war. [applause] and ladies and gentlemen, there's no doubt that we can win the battle with bullets and

weapons. and we must engage it now. but united states is the leader of the western ethics and our way of life. a western ethic that represents respect for human rights, respect for women. the women in this crowd today are unacceptable to our enemies. and respect for self-determination. we must gather those who understand that at this critical moment in history, we need to come together, not just to win on the battlefield, but we need to win the war of ideas. destroying one group does not allow us to win the battle of ideas. we must destroy this group today, but then engage the

battle of ideas. people across this globe even those who live in confused lives and trying to determine how to act need to understand what we believe. we believe in a life. that means we must live a life greater than ourselves. life is not just about me. life is about something greater than who we are. we should be a center of justice. a center of healing each and every one of us. and to know that all was -- our lives matter, that what we do makes a difference. and what we know in parts of western world and in many parts of the rest of the world and when people get confused about their purpose, when people get

confused about whether their life matters, whether they're whether they're poor or whether they're rich but when they believe that they don't matter on this globe, it is possible for them to turn to destructive ideology to seek to destroy those who believe that their lives make a difference in this world. ladies and gentlemen, it's only with the assertion of u.s. leadership that will allow us to preserve a world that values these ideas, these ideas. the ideas that our lives matter, that we are centers of healing and justice, that we do live lives greater than ourselves in any way that we can, that to spread this notion, this concept, this belief in our actions will allow us to win the

battle of ideas. and to reject and destroy the real threat to humanity. today, we're in a hall. yesterday, we were in the hall. and it's politics. you know, we need to think about what this is all about for our country. our philosophy is something that we believe so strongly in, free enterprise, freedom of individuals, government is the last resort, not as a first resort. and the notion that the united states of america and its leadership is indispensable all across this globe. to those young boys and girls being raised all across the globe that there is hope, that there is a future that we can , have progress and prosperity and peace.

you see, a political party is nothing more than a vehicle to bring change. you know, a political party is really nothing more than a vehicle to make a difference. and it's just not about winning an election. ladies and gentlemen, it's not. it's about what this country's future is going to be. we know the formulas that work. and we need to assert them in an aggressive and in a positive way. so, you know, isn't it a wonderful thing that each and every one of you has gathered here over the last couple of days. but i want you to think about it not so much from a republican point of view, but from an american point of view. that we believe that our ideas, that our philosophies will bring

about a stronger america. and think about this. it's really in the hands of each one of us and each one of you to realize that you can change the world. the axis on which it spins and being involved in the process of making sure that our children and our grandchildren will understand that america is the hope of the world as our system works and we will stand and we will fight for it on the battlefield and in the battlefield of ideas and we will win. that is what matters so much to us. [applause] you know, normally, i'm going to be fighting the clock. i have plenty of time left to speak.

i don't think today is the day for long-winded remarks. the message i gave you today comes from the bottom of my heart and i hope you will reflect on it. and realize that the good lord has given each of us a set of gifts, a set of capabilities, and the working together in our families, in our neighborhoods, for through our political action that we're part of healing our country and healing the world. we matter and we need to stand up for our children so that they, too, will understand that they can make a difference in our lives. yes, we knew we need to rebuild our families and yes, we need rebuild our neighborhoods. and by doing all that, we'll rebuild america and help the entire world. so today, i would say god bless the united states of america and

god bless the nation of france. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ ms. fiorina: thank you so much.

thank you. [applause] ms. fiorina: thank you for that great sunshine summit welcome. you guys have a lot of passion and spirit to be here on a beautiful saturday afternoon after two days of speeches. so, thank you for that warm welcome and hanging in here through the end of the day. >> [indiscernible] ms. fiorina: [laughter] thank you. [laughter] ms. fiorina: ladies and gentlemen, we have much to be proud of as republicans, but today, today, actually, like all of you, i am very angry. i am heartsick, and i am heartbroken at the carnage in paris. i am filled with revulsion for the terrorists that carried out

these brutal acts that we have seen play out on our television screens, and the murderous islamic extremism that fuels their violent hatred. i am profoundly disappointed that our own president cannot speak with the same clarity of andose as president hogans as -- president hollande and as the prime minister david cameron. [applause] ms. fiorina: mostly, though, i am angry. i am angry that just yesterday morning, our president, against all evidence, declared isis contained, and took a victory lap. isis is not contained, mr. president. they are at our shores, and they measure their victims in body -- their victory in body count. i am angry, really angry, that hillary clinton dares to ask

what difference does it make how four people died in benghazi, and then tells us we have to emphasize with our enemy. -- empathize with our enemy. mrs. clinton, when the united states does not answer a purposeful terrorist attack with a purposeful and powerful response of our own, and instead blames a video, then we invite more terrorism and more bloodshed. [applause] ms. fiorina: like all of you, i am angry. i am angry that president obama and hillary clinton declared victory in iraq in 2011, abandons all of our gains for political expediency, and contrary to advise of every general that spoke to them, they

left too much territory and too much weaponry to be gobbled up by isis. i am angry that president obama unilaterally decides that we will accept, in this nation, syrian refugees, while his administration admits that we cannot determine their ties to terrorism. [applause] mostly, i am outraged because the murder, the mayhem, the danger, the tragedy that we see unfolding in paris, in the middle east, around the world, and too often in our own homeland are the direct consequences of this administration's policies. you cannot lead from behind. [applause] ms. fiorina: the world is a very dangerous and a very tragic place when we do not lead. we cannot be the world's

policeman, but we must be the world leader, and so -- [applause] ms. fiorina: and so, ladies and gentlemen, it is worth considering, at this pivotal point in our nations history, it is worth considering why only this nation can lead. our nation was founded on a very unique premise, on a visionary idea, that each individual life has promise and potential, and value. that we judge an individual by the content of his or her character as martin luther king taught us, instead of as a member of a group. our nation -- [applause] our nation was founded on the that -- on the idea that each one of us has the right to the phil our potential. our founders expressed this right as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. our founders said, and this was the truly radical part of our founding ideal, our founders

said this right to find and use our god-given gifts to fulfill our potential, the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness comes from god and cannot be taken away by man or government. [applause] ms. fiorina: our constitution , as you know, was written as much to curb the abuse of power as it was to protect our individual rights. we are not a perfect nation. we have worked hard over our history to build a more perfect union. but we are an exceptional nation. [applause] ms. fiorina: because despite all of our imperfections, despite our struggles over history, it is nevertheless true that in this nation more things have been more possible for more people regardless of their circumstances than anywhere else

on earth. it is also true we are the only nation in the history of the world with military superiority who uses that power not to conquer territory, not to subjugate others but to liberate , people, to uplift people, and to comfort people all over the world. [applause] ms. fiorina: this, mr. president, is why we are an exceptional nation. because we are exceptional, we must lead. [applause] ms. fiorina: the philosopher aristotle once said courage is the most important of virtues because without courage the practice of the other virtues is impossible.

[applause] ms. fiorina: so we must have the courage to lead. and to give us that courage, we must remember who we are. the statue of liberty was a gift from the people of france. and in that iconic figure, the french saw americans as we must be. lady liberty stands tall and strong. we must have the strongest economy and the strongest military on the face of the planet, and everyone must know it. [applause] ms. fiorina: as president, i will restore our prosperity and possibilities for every american

regardless of their circumstances. i will cut our government down to size and hold it accountable. as commander-in-chief, i will invest in our military, honor their sacrifice, value their service, and listen to their advice. [applause] ms. fiorina: there is one candidate in this race who says he knows more about isis than our generals. he is wrong and deeply misguided. we must also, to have the strong -- strongest military on the face of the planet, to honor and value those who serve, we must also care for those who have already served. we must, finally, after years of talk, reform the veterans administration from top to bottom. [applause]

ms. fiorina: it is a stain on our nation's honor when our veterans are not given the care and respect they have already so richly earned. it is a stain on our nation's honor when we learn 307,000 veterans died the for they had access to health care, and the eight handout $140 million worth of bonuses. lady liberty is tall and strong, as this nation must always be. lady liberty is also clear-eyed and resolute. she does not shield her eyes from the realities or the evils of the world. and so let us be clear-eyed. no, mrs. clinton. no, president obama. climate change is not our most pressing national security challenge.

[cheers and applause] ms. fiorina: our most pressing and immediate national security challenge is radical islamist terrorism around the world and here at home, lone wolf and packs of wolves. isis is an evil that must be confronted and destroyed, and we must call it what it is. [cheers and applause] ms. fiorina: isis, evil. they are at war with us and only -- and all we represent, so we must wage this war and we must win. [applause]

ms. fiorina: this does not mean that we repeat all the nationbuilding and naivete, the mistakes of the iraq and afghanistan wars. [applause] ms. fiorina: but it does mean that we must deny isis territory. we cannot permit them to rape, to subjugate, to terrorize, to crucify, and behead their enemies. we cannot permit them to use their territories to train and prepare for jihad around the world. and so we must gather allies and lead. france, britain, germany all are threatened, as is every nation in europe. jordan, kuwait, turkey, saudi arabia, egypt, the kurds all are fighting isis on the ground as we speak. and all, every single one of them, have asked the united states of america for support, weapons, material, intelligence

sharing. mostly this administration has said no. i will say yes. [applause] ms. fiorina: russia and iran represent real threats over the medium-term. china is our rising adversary over the long-term. whether we confront near-term threats and enemies or rising adversaries over the longer-term, america must always stand with our allies and confront our adversaries because when we fail to do so, our allies lose courage and our adversaries press forward. [applause] ms. fiorina: and so, on day one of my administration, i will send an unmistakable signal to every ally we have and every adversary we have. i will make two phone calls from

the oval office. the first will be to my good friend, bibi netanyahu, to reassure him the united states of america will stand with israel always. [cheers and applause] ms. fiorina: the second phone call will be to the supreme leader of iran. realistically, he may not take my phone call. [laughter] ms. fiorina: but he will get my message. [laughter] [applause] ms. fiorina: new deal. new deal with a new president. until iran opens every military and nuclear facility to real, anytime, anywhere inspections by our people, not yours, we, the united states of america will make it as difficult as possible

for you to move money around the global financial system. we do not need anyone's permission or collaboration. we must stop the money flow. [cheers and applause] ms. fiorina: and with these two phone calls, a loud and clear signal will be sent to every ally and every adversary around the world. the united states of america is back in the leadership business. [cheers and applause] ms. fiorina: i understand the world and who is in it. i have operated around the world for decades in business, in charity, and in policy.

i have held the highest security clearances available to a civilian. i have advised the c.i.a., the n.s.a., department of defense, secretaries of state and homeland security. we need a president who will speak, who will see, who will act on the truth. she must understand how truly exceptional -- [cheers and applause] ms. fiorina: she must understand how truly exceptional this nation is and call evil by its name. others will not call this "islamic terrorism." i will. and i have the courage to lead. [applause] ms. fiorina: lady liberty stands

tall and strong, as america always must. she is clear-eyed and resolute. she faces out into the world as we always must, and she holds her torch high because she knows she is a beacon of hope in a very troubled and dangerous world. we must nominate and elect a president who will proudly accept the mantle of leadership that a weary world is eager for us to wear. [applause] ms. fiorina: i know what such leadership requires. i will recognize dangers with eyes wide open, but i will also embrace with open arms the enormous opportunities and amazing potential of our times. many years ago, a hero of mine, margaret thatcher, once said this.

[applause] ms. fiorina: margaret thatcher said, "i am not content to manage the decline of a great nation." well, neither am i. i think, ladies and gentlemen, we have been managing the decline of this great nation for far too long now. [applause] ms. fiorina: i have been tested. and i am prepared. with your prayers, with your support, with your votes to lead the resurgence of this great nation, here at home, and around the world. may god bless you all and may god continue to bless the most exceptional nation in the world, the united states of america. [cheers and applause]

♪ >> the in his weekly address, theident obama talks about >> hi, everybody. for decades, too many americans went without the security of health insurance and financial well-being changed because of

that. we have covered 17.6 million americans since 2010. the uninsured rate has decreased by 45 percent. the first time, more than that 90% of americans are covered. if you are not covered yet were care about someone who has not gotten covered yet, now is your chance. it is open enrollment season for the health insurance marketplace. what that means is, with a few clicks on healthcare.gov, you will find private insurance companies competing for your business. you can compare plans and choose the one that is right for your family. in fact, most americans will find an option that cost less than $75 a month. even if you already have insurance or the marketplace, check it out, shopping around can save money. last year consumers who shopped saved almost $400. take the story of a man named phil, who e-mailed me earlier this year.

he is a software developer from chicago. last winter, he had an idea for a new app and it decided to start his own company, that can be scary. but phil went to healthcare.gov and answered a few questions, picked a plan and even found out he was eligible for a tax credit that saved him money. here is what he wrote, "i am still in shock at how the experience for health care -- signing up for health care was, i will try to get my app released and will have many words, but health care will not be one of them." after he sent that e-mail, he ended up getting a better job anyway. but that is the point, it provides peace of mind. if you want to change jobs, go back to school, or chase that new idea, you can do it without

worrying about going broke if you get sick. if you have a precondition -- pre-existing condition, diabetes or heartburn, you can no longerd more just for being a woman. and preventative care now comes with no additional out-of-pocket costs. what we are talking about is no longer just the law, it is not scare tactics that critics have peddled, this is reality. this is health care in america and the bottom line is, americans like it, they are happy with plans and with premiums. so join them. give it a shot. check out healthcare.gov. or call 1-800-318-2506, to find a plan that is right for you.

if you live in one of the 20 cities participating and our healthy communities challenge, i want to see how many neighbors you can get to sign up. i will visit the city that enrolls the highest percentage of folks not covered right now, that is a promise. after all, this country is at its best when we look out for each other and together we can her help more americans get the security that they and their families deserve. thank you everybody, have a great weekend. a senator dane: open season began this month and millions of americans will spend the next few months looking for affordable health coverage for themselves, spouses, and children. but for too many hard working american families, 2016 is living to be another disappointment. premiums are rising again and in states like montana, people for -- purchasing plans are getting hit with rate increases. take cindy from montana, she

was promised low premiums, but when cindy opened her mailbox this past month, she saw a letter from her health insurer, telling her that next year she will face a staggering 40% increase in her health care premiums. obamacare is just one more bill she cannot afford. sadly, those impacted the hardest by the steep increases are those who can least afford it. the congressional budget office recently projected that 20 million people would sign up on a the obamacare exchange is by 2016, yet only half of that number is enrolled today. in last thing uninsured americans need is a heavy tax penalty to force them into purchasing subpart coverage. they need access to affordable care but obamacare not only takes uninsured americans in the wrong direction, it fails to provide the basic coverage that americans deserve. of the 23 co-ops established under obamacare, all but one lost money in the last year. in fact, over the past few weeks, more than half of the

nation's health insurance co-ops have collapsed, forcing americans across the country to find new health insurance a find new health insurance options. it is just another example of how obamacare is not only a costing taxpayers billions of a a costing taxpayers billions of dollars, it is failing to a provide american people with a reliable access to affordable care. they are forced off the plans they like and away from doctors they trusted. and when the federal government takes over the health care system and puts the whims of washington bureaucrats over the a needs of hard working american families, prices go up and quality of care goes down. after five years of looking at this experiment with american health car resulting in failure and embarrassment, the american people know that it is time to

stop putting more bandaids on something that is so far beyond repair. in the coming weeks, republicans will work to ensure that the voice of moms and dads, union workers and tribal members and all families that face nonstandard care is heard. we will vote to appeal the broken health care law. growing up in montana, i was flyfishing before brad pitt made it cool. i know that when you're fishing, the line gets tangled and you a the line gets tangled and you have two options, you can take time to untangle it and cast again, but other times, it is so tangled that the only option is to cut the line and start over, a to cut the line and start over, the american people know you that after more than five years of the health care law and its tangled mess, it is time to cut the line. a we need to tie out a new fly. and we need to replace this broke along with state resolutions applications back in and resolutions applications back in the center of the health care equation. last year when i decided to run for montana's open senate seat,

i promised the people of montana and that i would work to repeal a obama care. a in 2014, the american people spoke loud and clear and elected a republican majority to a a republican majority to dismantle the failure that obamacare has become. obamacare is not working, the american people don't want it. and i have a message for all americans working to provide for their families and achieve the a their families and achieve the american dream, we are working to protect you from rising health care costs and we are working to ensure that you receive quality health care that you deserve. we are fighting for you and a promise we will not stop until we have health care that works for all. thank you and god bless. >> next, a discussion on what motivated melinda yields and young people around the world. then come israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is presented crystal award.

after that, republican presidential candidate speak at the florida gop sunshine summit. on newsmakers, new hampshire republican party chair jennifer horn and democratic party chair, raymond buckley discussing the 2016 campaign so far. new hampshire's first state in the nation primary. the issues that matter to new hampshire voters. newsmakers, sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> that all of you, thank you for your support and to the kids for just saying no. is that the women of the future will feel truly free to they want.ever path

the white house was so glamorous what you did was so glamorous and your life it was glamorous. it was all about parties and meeting people. i have to tell you i never worked harder in my life. reagan served as a longtime political partner, ferocious protector, and ultimately as caretaker for president ronald reagan. -- involved first later, first lady, she made drug use her signature initiative with her -- just say no campaign. nancy reagan, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series, first ladies- influence an image. examining the public and private lives of the women who filled

the first lady lady position and their influence on the presidency. sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. now, a discussion about engaging again people in politics around the world. activists and politicians from britain, canada, and italy talked about what they are doing to get millennial voters involved in the political process. from the center for american progress in washington, this is an hour and a half. >> hello everyone. thank you so much for being here today. and i ams and johnson the executive director of generation progress here at the center for american progress. we are excited about the conversation we are studying today -- starting today about

young people and civic engagement in the u.s. and around the world. this is an organization that works with the millennial organization here in the u.s. the millennial's are generally defined as people born between 1980 and 2000. on who ist depends defining it. the millennial generation is the largest generation in our history. year 2020,n the millennial's will make up 40% of the voting age population in the u.s. conversationt of about what is going on with young people in the united states and their political participation. as an organization, we really focus on engaging young people around the issues that matter to them. we run issue-based campaigns on everything from the economy to student debt and campus sexual assault provisions. we have had an opportunity over the last few years to meet young people around the world who are doing similar work.

of the things that we have learned in doing that is that a lot of the issues are actually very similar. the issues that are important to young people. if you think about jobs and the economy, that makes a lot of sense. young people are unemployed and underemployed both here in the u.s. and around the world. there is a big question about jobs and the economy. there are issues around access to high-quality affordable education for young people. obviously, in the united takes, huge issue but a access to affordable higher education is an issue around the world. there are issues related to violence, gun violence. in the united states, one of the things that i have found is that problemalk about our with gun violence in the united states, it is absolutely shocking to young people in other parts of the world. how bad this issue is in the u.s. issues thatviously

we are dealing with in terms of police violence of police killings of young people which is also something that other people around the world are dealing with, violence at the hands of the state itself. important things about the role of government that young people are struggling with here in the u.s. and around the world. i think one of the things that was surprising to me about having conversations with people is that young people in other --ts of the world would say there is a corruption problem with the way that our political system works. in the united states, young people talk about being frustrated by money and politics. down,, when you boil it it is the same issue. it is about influence them it goes to the rich and powerful. peoples it away from the at large. there are a lot of similarities with that issue as well. the issues are similar that young people are dealing with. the structural challenges are also similar.

are progressive institutions here in the united states and around the world that are trying to figure out how to engage the millennial generation in to those progressive institutions. whether that is labor unions, or advocacy organizations or political parties themselves or think tanks are organizing -- organizations are trying to figure out how to engage them in this and make them the fabric of the aggressive movement in that country. political participation is an issue. actually voting. inng people are not voting the same numbers as previous generations. they are not exercising their power in that way. andtical parties in canada around the world are trying to figure that out. there is also a lot of very successful social movements that are happening around the world that are trying to figure out

the young people leading those social movements are trying to figure out how to move that social movement organizing and activism into political power. if you think about what happened to occupy movement in the united days. it was really powerful. it shifted the narrative around inequality. moving into institutional power was a challenge. organizingther efforts around the world that are experiencing similar problems. what is the next step? how do you institutionalize your power to create long-term change. that is something a lot of people are talking about. project, this global conversation we want to start, we want to address some of those issues. what is the research we need to do on this? we are excited to have our friends here from the foundation for european progressive studies to talk about this millennial dialogue project a have kicked off around the world.

what is the research -- what does the research tell us? what are some of the issues that are engaging young people here and what are the issues that are engaging young people in other countries? thosean we learn about issues, organizing campaigns that could be replicable. what is working here that could work in other parts of the world? those are the kinds of things that we would like to talk about. talk about what is working in electoral engagement? what are some of the models and successes that we can actually share with each other to make electoral politics more welcoming to young people around the world? and then, what good public policies are actually passing? what policies are impacting young people and how are those policies getting through the legislative bodies at young people are engaged in? what is working, how are we electing good candidates, how

are we getting young people to run for office? and how are we building social movements that move into institutionalized power? these are the kinds of questions that we want to ask over the course of the next hour and a half. but obviously, over the next months and years as well as we build this millennial toversation and start connect young organizers and activists and political leaders from around the world together. i think, as we move forward, these relationships that are being built and these best practices that are being shared between this generation will 10-, 20 years out. that, i will turn it over to ernst. to be workingd with the foundation for european progressive studies on this research project.

thank you for joining us and tell us a little bit about your work. >> thank you. thank you for this opportunity to address today's conference. before starting, i would like to say a big thank you that it was possible to build up this type of common dialogue together with the center for american progress and all of the related institutions. i think what we discussed today is not only a timely discussion but it is also very important issue of our times and the challenges that we are living in the millennial's are facing. not least important for today's debate is the issue of somewhat worn-out story of the younger generation that you already mentioned. ,t features disenfranchised young people who have turned their back on the political system. this is at least what we can say for the european level.

people are saying that in your political appeals, they have distanced themselves from political campaigns and they have failed to appear at ballot boxes. however, their absence within the framework of institutionalized political conversations makes them a target of political --. that is why we have launched a global initiative called a millennial dialogue that seeks to shed some light to this growing phenomenon of youth withdrawal. it is crucial that we take a further step to understand this youth as they are a very good indicator of what the future will look like and how progressives will proceed by this generation. in addition, we should also enable ourselves to analyze and work out the real challenges for the upcoming gears to reconnect

-- upcoming years and to reconnect with this generation. solutions thate will bring the progressives out of this malaise. i am convinced that the mod -- millennial dialogue project is a step in the right direction. to use -- give ways youths to include them. .e have designed the project being positive. being progressive. it is to be positive because it is to change of the current debate. it is to be participatory -- use it is it is to be progressive because it is to support social democratic families and acquiring a new connection with

the younger generation. what has to be done -- what has been done so far? contacted so far more than 10 countries with a number of indications on what the younger generation is expecting from politics in the political system. the project has been enthusiastically welcomed and recognized as an innovative one attracting even more partners within the european union and beyond. it has allowed us to recover the majority of the european states and to go global. we have so far contacted research, together with you in the u.s. and canada and the european union. with somew contracted countries in latin america, chile and brazil. we have also contacted some of

the countries in africa to, and especially south africa and senegal. we are also looking at the younger generations in india. it is really a kind of global conversation and a global initiative that is going on. it is very needed. politicians and politics are looking at this. with that, i would like to conclude with four core questions which i think david lewis from our agency who is doing this research will explain a bit more to you in detail and what has come out so far. the first question we have to tackle is -- how to prove that progressives understand the approach of the millennial's. and will make politics remain at the service of the society.

the second question i think we have to to tackle is how to create an innovative clinical project that would appeal to young people's idealistic police that another world is possible. how tord question -- reestablish the link between politics, political culture, and culture itself. and the fourth question, how to renew the movement so it presents itself as a real, serious, alternative and not a part of the system of the mainstream political consensus. if we work on this basis, on such a positive, progressive, or just the tory debate, i am convinced that the progressive movement especially in europe can convince again a large part of the younger millennial generation to participate more actively and more engaged towards politics. thank you very much for your attention. i would like to now introduce david lewis.

kitching. david they have worked out this tremendous results already on the table. they will continue also working together on these issues. [applause] >> thank you very much. of afounder and ceo research company which until recently has had a background in music and technology research for a political research has come about because the technologies that we used to engage in people in the music and entertainment industry resonate very well with the young people. major segments of people from around the world. we start with statistical measurement of thousands of people through an online stream of panelists. we've reached globally.

explaining that audience that has a global reach. we also do segmentation analysis so that we can identify core groups to speak with. in the case of politics, we have gone out to 1000 people in each country, 1600 in the u.s., and conducted research. through the analysis we were able to bring in an online community, representative of the key segments. we have to people who are actively engaged politically. we have the disengaged millennial in another segment. and then the people in the middle, the mainstream. were then able to establish a 24/7 dialogue in each of those countries. it is not just about statistical measurement but also about engagement and discussion through a 24/7 on my community. moderated in the local language.

it started out as a three country project. germany, and poland and sweden. the project went from there. so much so, the technology used ,or record companies and sports so much of it resonates with politics that we now have a political research department. after years of doing research in music and entertainment, this has been a very fascinating project. it is applying technology to really make a difference. in people's lives. you can see there on the screen how it works. it is actually very hard for me so i will walk around here. rigorous research methodology combined with collected -- connected technologies to engage for 24/7

insights. we have produced a pilot study report an individual reports. we are also building up a database. soon, we will have completed 20 countries on four continents. we should be able to produce reports with glenn your -- granularr detail -- detail. some really interesting clusters and very interesting cultural differences. the most important thing and exciting thing is the strength of commonality when talking to young people around the globe about politics and their engagement. because we has spoken to people quantitatively as well as during is a questionnaires, there huge amount of rich data in the survey. i will concentrate on the

numbers. across theme out people we have talked to. i will concentrate on the u.s. and then contrast that with other territories. i will start off by taking one quote from each of six countries to give you a flavor of the sorts of things coming out of the study. i think the really reach data is in the qualitative engagement. gaining int is popularity in germany. senseless act a of games. in italy, i have been without a job for three years and with it my dreams to buy a house. i was living at home with my parents. i shelved the idea of getting married and having children. it will never happen that we will have children. right now, i am looking for work in order to start a family. in poland, if poland were to

explode in revolution we would soon have a lot of likes on facebook but no revolution industries. something that comes out in -- wheret -- territory people will like or agree with the comment and they feel they have done something. young people are very self-effacing. they recognize that that is not being politically active. summed up there. in bulgaria, politics is a dirty business. politicians seek to fill their pockets and watch their own interest. they do not care about society. for as long as i can remember, correct all -- corrupt politicians have ruled. young people are not interested in politics because nothing excites them. those that cared about politics have long left the country. and hungry, i would like to see that politics have an effect.

fighting against the parties is futile. a an average person gets into powerful position, -- mary nicely summed up. -- very nicely summed up. we can see how consistent america is on so many levels with other territories and other countries. young people are absolutely concerned about their future. they really engage with their future. they have a very serious interest in politics. they are not engaging with the traditional political system. the political systems for young isple across this research viewed as being very damaged if not completely broken. young people are really serious about their lives and care.

the most impactful discussion that i witnessed since we have been running this survey was and hungry where young people -- hungary where young people started to discuss the benefits of having children. with the austerity and the problems they are having. is it defensible to have children. that is a horribly bleak picture but it has been very interesting . we will see that young people have such an interest in their lives and making a difference. it is about how we change the system to reflect young people. there has been a huge cognitive shift among young people since they have grown up in the digital age away from the way of viewing the world with social media and social platform integration. i will go through the data. we have so much here i am

conscious of the time. -- one we asked people what they were interested in, they did not know the survey was mostly about politics. we started off talking about what interested people. you can see from this picture, it is similar. every country we have researched. music, new technology. social media, very high up. politics. that is the lowest scoring interest. not just in the u.s. in its entirety. political engagement, you look the discussion in our communities, 16% of american millennial's say they are very interested in politics which is

lower than the 23% saying they are not at all interested in politics. millennial's say they're very interested in politics which is lower than 23% say they are not at all interested in politics. we consider those to be politically disengaged. as for other questions on trend countries, looking at america in comparison it is alongside the u.k., just behind in germany, the politics and hungry was particularly pronounced as it was in bulgaria. let me ask, what is important in life? what are the important things in your life? being happy, being a good health, being free to do and say what i want, they are high up on the list. as you'll see the significant thing there taken an interest in politics is the least important factor in the research. throughout all of the territories we talked to taking

an interest in politics was 16th or 17th. so very low. interestingly, in america it is the only country where we found a slight uplift among 15 - 17-year-olds who are very interested in politics. and the other countries we find the younger you go down the scale the less interest there is in politics. in italy of 1000 people we talked to we do not find one respondent of the 15 - 17-year-old said they were very interested in politics. in hungary there were only 20. this is an interesting question, we would have to choose one option. what would you rather be, in your life? in all countries but germany business owner or founder he came top of what people would like to be. entrepreneurial

concerned with business, concerned with success, that was the top answer everywhere else except germany. in germany we found being a sportsman was number one aspiration. it was interesting in germany we found a greater sense of stability going forward. german economy, german education system people were comfortable that and confident that they were going to have a nice life and maybe an entrepreneur may be. america is supposed to be the biggest laboratory country in the world where being a famous celebrity was coming in second. the interesting thing here is again only 4% of americans say they would like to be a politician, and all of the countries across europe and north america, chile, no one wants to be a politician or very few.

happiness with life right now, lots of very serious conversation about and what i refer to and hungry, the optimism of the youth. 89% of 15 - of 15-34-year-old millennial's in the state say they are happy. that compares favorably with other countries. hungary was at the bottom. another interesting finding and i found it particularly interesting because before i started this project i assumed that it would be a huge influence young people, constantly connecting with their peers. when you say seriously what the biggest influence of your day to day life, parents and every country has come out way ahead of friends, siblings, but in america, they're more influenced by family compared to

the norm and other countries. let me look at data analysis, we are picking out active interest, what you actively have an interest in. team sports, one third of people in that compares to taking part of political meetings and protester demonstrations. it is way down there. what factors will affect the quality of your life? the number one factor that america millennial's feel is the u.s. economic situation. what is interesting in the data is despite a lack of personal interest in politics and the political system, americans will use decisions made by

politicians is a key thing of their life. they are aware of how influential and important politics will be in effect in their lives but they are not engaging in the system. one interesting thing of the data compared with countries is decisions made by politicians and the u.s. is high where u.s. international decisions is low. again, optimism about the future, how, how optimistic are you about your future? this is something you find with young people, my might not be great but there's a determination and energy that life will be good. 8585% are optimistic about their future in the u.s. generation gap, did you you want to say something about the generation gap involvement in politics in their parents and grandparents be met yes will put some historical context on the historic gold generation gap.

with regard to politics and culture, and the surveys we found there is a perception among millennial's that we do not have the same things to fight for that our parents or grandparents generation had. in germany, or pulling, there is about communist legacy sub millennial parents were young with the berlin wall existed, those reasonable organization. there is movements around the vietnam war and a greater sense of need to mobilize around politics. there was not really satisfaction about the case that there are issues to fight for. there is a wide rate of alienation and polarization and were commonalities, their stark contrast in specific areas. we noticed a significant rise in

jenna phobia and hungry for example. there is a link and how the economic so for example in countries you think was a aaa credit rating there was some more interest in politics. there's very much evident hierarchy of need and how millennial's view politics and what is important for them. >> think we isolated the people who said they had no interest in voting, one of the key reasons for not wanting to vote, in the u.s., it was no interest in politics ahead of lack of trust in politicians. that was a difference across countries because they're tended to be a lack of politicians was the number one factor.

key factors that might encourage u.s. millennial's to vote if my vote really made a difference, that contrast was out of the country. a grin with these statements 60% of u.s. millennial thing politicians ignore the views of young people. 62% of young americans feel politicians are more concerned about older people than younger. over half feel politicians want to control and restrict young people. the fact contributing to voting decisions in the u.s., what was interesting here when you ask young people what you think would actually affect your decision of who to vote for if you're going to vote? it's it's traditional media, all the things you think about in the way the arguments for political campaigns had to pan out. we look at how young person will

begin to engage with their peers it is a different picture, is about use of social media and connectivity. we'll see that in a moment. one thing a trend that comes out that people are interested in issues that have a link to politics. this is in translation to political participation. there is a jaundiced view towards parties and institutions that seem to be inaccessible, they seem to be favorable to older generation it's more hierarchy. or single issue campaigns that have a direct linear relationship from start to finish and you can see the success that is achieved. there is a challenge in

translating this, we have used two cultural change. , one is really mobilize using the means that millennial's identified as something they would use the campaign. the other is the marriage equality campaign and which made use of everything from local organization and mobilization at community level through celebrity. then to make sure everyone knew about it so it would want others to go vote two. there some speculation as to what will attract more preservation with justin trudeau becoming prime minister in

canada and younger charismatic leaders in leadership. president obama is an example of it. but among a lot of the respondents in our survey is not specifically just these boxes that they want to have checked. it is a feeling and desire of authenticity in politics. it is not specifically the age of the leaders that matter. it is the projection of related ability of off the intensity. >> it is interesting in britain the two most popular politicians are young people, the two who could not be more politically apart but they have charisma and honesty that young people find they can engage with because they think they are who they say they are. it is fascinating that young

people think that. young people in terms of political structures and system just want transparency. they went to a dialogue that is now possible through social media. >> so coming to that point what things would be extremely useful to you, as young people for building your political campaign? they are not expecting that in electoral campaigns particularly, if they're are starting a political campaign social media would be up there alongside powerful media, tv, et cetera. and the quality of research we got young people building and what kind of messaging you would use. what we are finding in the research is the answers to engaging young people come from young people they need to write the script.

we need to get politicians involved in listening in a two-way dialogue. that dialogue needs to involve young people in terms of calling people to political action. we talk about high-priority spending in the u.s. was very consistent with the other countries in terms of actual things that come to the top, education, healthcare, there are central issues. did you central issues. did you want to say something about? >> this goes again to the focus of the quality of the economy and socialist in the country. it is reflective in our research , if there is a stable label market there are more issues than jobs. only one third of americans felt

they could have their opinion heard if they wanted to. young young people generally don't feel empowered to be heard. next few if any politicians encourage young people to get involved in politics. what should politicians work for an to what extent should they deliver what they're working for? in every country we found the number one thing from a young person's perspective a politician should be doing is ensuring the best possible future for young people. as you can see most of the other things the politicians are doing is perceived as to how well politicians are doing. the only place it was great where's germany where there is more praise of what politicians achieve. other countries we see this lack

of ensuring of a future for young people be in the key thing. the only thing is building and maintaining strong military focus and that is what politicians seem to do better. in terms of gender and sexual orientation without huge support for gender and sexual equality. norway was the highest, u.s. 80%. hungary was the lowest of the country. from from young person perspective that is an important issue. in the research we are building communication, how would young people begin to message the importance of racism. it's not a creative suggestion for campaign but an essential messaging that young people

should hear. young people need to vote, as their future. this is what comes out at the top of the message. we also say, in america there is definitely a call for more women in politics. the gender balance is important. finally, and i'm conscious of time, the fact fact that it would encourage more millennial's to vote. first about the ability to vote on my, i know there has been problems with online voting in holly, their things texted and shelved for security issues. there are debates about whether it is right for voting to bmi. from a young person's perspective and perspective and across the research is just a matter of when. it has to happen, if their problems they need to fix them because because we need to be able to vote online.

what about the ability to vote more places, would that help? shopping malls, airports, train stations, and just be able to go to cast your vote more widely, young people are saying they'll be irrelevant once we could vote on my because that's how we would vote. those eligible to vote who are you register, and the u.s. 70% have registered. the ability to vote in advance, what, what about if you could vote several weeks or months in a dance with that encourage more young people to vote? we found there is support other than in hungry for longer. to vote. will he talked about this in the research if we excluded the idea of months it would be higher. people think you should be up to vote for weeks but not months. should voting be be compulsory by law? definitely not that does not

seem to fit with democracy. that was was widely rejected in all countries. should 16 and 17-year-olds be given the opportunity to vote. note was note was the answer and every country. you have 52% of people saying they should not be able to vote they were concerned about whether they knew enough or were experienced enough to vote. in the u.k. we did research not long after we had a referendum where 16 and 17 -year-olds could vote. that got a lot of media attention. generally people feel that 16 and 17 is too young. that is the headlines of the research. i think where 1010 minutes behind schedule, thank you very much. [applause]. thank you so much i would like

to introduce matt brown who is going to facilitate this panel discussion. matt is a senior fellow for the american progress and runs the global progress program which works with institutions around the world on developing progressive governments and progressive. thank you matt for doing this. that has also been a thought partner in this process. i appreciate his guidance as we go through this, i will turn it over to. >> thank you for the passing presentation. i will quickly introduce the three new panelists that we have joining us, we have a member of parliament from the democratic party in italy, also we have

hillary who is the lead for the volunteer mobilization and liberal party of canada. we have layla who is the communication director at generation progress that leaves a variety of campaigns including a trip. this has been a hugely successful campaign that you correlated with the white house but it is not a political campaign. if you can explain to us what is the source of that success, will how do you run a campaign that involves high-level politicians yet transcends political divides? what is the secret to success. >> so thank you matt, i think we can all agree the issue of

campus sexual assault is a tremendous problem. we have one in five women will be sexually assaulted by the time she graduates. one and 16 men, and most of most of the time it is by someone they know. the scope of the problem is huge which is why the white house launched a passport to investigate the growing number of incidents on campus. one of the things the task force found was by standard intervention. training people to feel empowered to step in and do something if they saw something happening. we partnered with them and others to launch the campaign which is about that really. empowering people to think about campus sexual assault is something they have a responsibility to do something about. if you see something happening and you don't do something to stop at your are part of the problem as well.

we want to make sure were giving you tools to be part of the solution. we are fortunate to work with the white house on this. is very much a cultural change campaign and not with legislative agenda. again trying to reframe this idea of making it your responsibility to do something about campus sexual assault. >> i think we reach out to a lot of cultural influencers to first broadcast that message and so anyone from kerry washington to the president and vice president are supporters of the campaign. we have had millions of views on our psa's, to say the reach of the message has been huge.

we also have an intense focus on making sure people are embracing the message and it is not just a psa campaign. it is something we want people to take in use and implement on their campus. to empower each other to step in and do something. working with these cultural influencers has allowed us to spread the message far and wide. we put the toolkit online, we made the local downloadable, we gave the tools to the people we want to run the campaigns on their campus entrusted them with the tools. given that trust to the young people has empowered them to take the campaign and run with it. that is what made it successful. >> what is the definition of success for you? how do you measure success if it is a cultural change? >> to be honest, it is hard to measure the success of cultural change. we have great numbers in terms of how far the message has been

reaching. at the end of the day the campaign is about stopping campus sexual assault. if nobody ever gets raped again that we have succeeded and it is great. to dial it back a bit, we like to normalize by standard and it is something a given on college campuses. outside of college campuses as well. i think i think of the example of a designated driver. twenty or 30 years ago that was not really a thing that people thought about if you're going to go on have drinks and socialize you didn't think about having a designated driver. and out now through work and campaigning that is a given. if you're going to be drinking with your friends you have a designated driver. that is a similar parallel with what we're trying to do it by standard intervention and empowering people to read

praying the issue of campus sexual assault. secondly working with people to continue the grassroots movement as they continue to have conversations on campuses and engage each other. making sure the schools are responding well and institutionalizing that from a university level. i would say that would definitely be a success. >> thank you. looking at the campaigns towards the political campaigns, the research presented say the younger generation of millennial's are becoming much less affiliated with a political party. when when you're looking at this, i remember a poll that came out just before an election and they basically set up young people vote justin trudeau wins.

those essentially the message. what technique did you use in canada with the liberal party to encourage people to come out and vote? >> a lot of what was done in the presentation is that we relied upon. it was more of the issues and about identity. people were were coming to the liberal party because of the platform policies that laid out, that is what we use to connect with people. one of the things that is important to take away is that youth is not a special interest group. they are diverse groups. there's a youth with young families, youth and school, there is there is no secret sauce to mobilizing youth. it is based on real relationships, not not transactional relationships that only come around once an election. we started building prior campaign about a year and a half out and we really mobilized people around issues that matter to them.

started by talking to people in finding out what they are interested in. what issues concern them, and then talking about how different policies could impact their lives. one of the things that made it, they opened up special voting centers on college campuses to advance the polls for early voting. and made it easier for young people and mostly on university campuses and so that's a group that generally has a low participation in the pole. so not making making it about a liberal, conservative, democrat, so just talking about what you care about and using personal stories and giving people tools to mobilize their own community.

>> can we dig deeper into that last point you made about the tools. the strategies, techniques, tactics or particular forms that allow people to organize better than others? or could you not generalize there either? >> i think it's about doing the real work and having conversations with people being authentic and honest. being in places where young people are. prime minister trudeau did the talk and i think that was something that a lot of people were interested in. they went to that force for a lot of their news and their interests. i don't think you can generalize because it is a diverse audience and it is about making candidates making sure they are accessible and open and having

conversations with people once before hand. >> from a candidates point, david mention is that a lot of people who are successful are the young charismatic leaders. yet obama and zero eight, you you have trudeau now, do you think that is a factor and partly of your success? >> i think both. i think think people want to see themselves reflected in their leadership, that plays a part. if people are not the centric and people don't believe this person will do it they say or is not a real person, that trickles down to the candidates, the volunteers, the people who are doing the organizing. everyone has to find their own voice and reason for becoming involved in politics. that authenticity says what that person cares maybe i should care to. >> you are a real person a

politician. at least you seem to be from where i'm sitting. what is a light from the inside? how? how does it feel to run? >> the kind of experience is a big difference from what you spoke until now. we were elected with a strong mandate from all people to crash all politics. so we were not elected by young people i would say. when we compare, we have to be honest, when we comparing 2013 we are not so gray heads, young people did not vote like the democratic party. they went but we ended up with a

very young parliament is the youngest parliament elected in italy since the beginning of the republic so since the end of the world war. we do have a mandate to respond to the quotes that we had. let's say two and half million young people in italy do not work, do not not study, and are not in training. we were elected to change politics. i think this is our challenge. so more than complaining, i think we have to look at the work we do, to ace, on the one side what are the issues that move us? we come from different parties and we did a lot of work on unemployment. we strongly felt that was our mandate so we have a problem in

italy certainly so as you see young people do not vote because of what government delivered. also they feel involved. that is the second part of our mandate. it is more challenging i would say which is involving young people in politics which is what we're talking about. in a different way because one way of all people in politics the other issues how to get people involved in everyday politics and taking responsibility. i think it is my experience, first of all that you have to set an example. if you let people your age to vote you have to do the work so

conversing in the streets. we opened up shop in the middle of my constituency. >> ..

you are. >> the good thing is that you put yourself into a position to change things. no party asks you to lie. but the main idea that young people have -- if they are volunteers they are asked to lie. so the second lesson that i had

to show young people our age that they have the possibility to do things and try out what they are really passionate about so that there can be possibilities and they can have a possibility of doing things. >> i want to come back and ask, when we were discussing this shift from campaigning with what we experienced in 2008 and what some people may have said was a disappointment and there were not enough things for people to do to help the governor's agenda, are you thinking about this? is the government comes in, and what is your thinking on that remark. >> for sure, that definitely part of it. we are mobilizing more people to get involved in politics and how do we go forth with that and how

do we keep people engaged. first because they want to be engaged and also they would help the democratic process continue because people think that we only wanted to engage with them because there is an election and that is not going to speak well for us and so a lot of the ideas in this stuff was successful because we learn from each other. and we would say we have this, it was very effective, i think we have a lot to learn from our grassroots community and so it's definitely something that has been actively talked about and how do we do that moving forward with their constituents and also other areas where we didn't necessarily win but we engage a lot of people. >> from the research, what is it that people are asking for a

rematch when it comes to their involvement. >> we have engaged with them and it is a dialogue. and we are talking about the need for this because it is the 21st century. don't just use it as another form of lecturing. you have to do it properly which is why you need young people in both sides of the discussion who know how to use social media and connect with young people. so when you're asking young people and making suggestions, i think that's a point that we can just touch on, you can't just leave it to a few months or a need for an election to suddenly change because you need to have this genuine dialogue all the

time and it needs to be an initiative rather than a campaign. because young people, there needs to be a lot more people creating a very genuine engagement. and so these are young people that are completely part of the political spectrum. >> opening up to people. i just want to go back to something that you said earlier about doing things, the fact that you and your young colleagues worked together on an employment opportunity. has that changed the perception of young people and the fact that you can collaborate with

members of different parties to do things for them? have you seen a change in the way people feel about you, have you managed to show them the more together and actually achieve things? >> it was really hard, it was a very difficult time. there was a sense of a divide between a grassroots movement and the populist party. but we thought that it was worth a try to try to engage them and we do engage them on specific issues and so it is so terrible especially with young people between the ages of 18 and 29 years old.

so we needed to give this response to that. but that does not translate so we have to be honest. >> let's talk to the gentleman in the front row here. do we have a microphone? >> i would likely asked the issue about climate change. , as is the future. >> i think it's definitely an issue that young people care about, but it is on us as people who are reading these movements

and if they want to have a conversation about it to engage them in a productive conversation and work with them. i think working on this perspective why that has been successful is because we kind of have structured a model that is very much outside of the traditional political system to plug into a movement where they are the agents of change, but i think that it's something that is applicable to any number of climate change concluded. >> i think he you may have just missed something in the five is definitely up there and they're certainly discussion groups. the lady at the back there. >> hello, i'm a junior studying here is part of the program and

my question is even that we have representatives from across the transatlantic policy perspective, what would you say is the collaboration that we might need to move the needle and engage millennialist. [laughter] >> i think that what really struck me is that even in different countries we do have the same challenges with similar solutions. we have successes with young people like the leaders that we spoke about. and we should develop this with young people. and there is a big difference

between this and the grassroots movement to revise the whole idea of the process in the which is something that we had in different parts of the european countries. demonstrating that that process is meaningful today. and so i think that there are some issues, one is climate change and the second one is issues like migration and stability that do require more progressive policies like human trafficking control and a stronger assertion of human rights, i think that these are issues that in my country are part of young people.

>> how are people feeling about the refugee crisis. and how does that come out in the research. >> usually there is a big young people movement, helping out in the street where these people arrive. there is a big personal involvement. it is also respect to those kinds of instances where young people go and do things and we should be there with them to help and that dean in an institution you can do much more so you can be multitasking. >> i think what is also interesting about what you just said is that you are doing kind of something outside of passing

legislation that is in the health like delivering food or something. and it's using your position and your giant microphone to engage other people. by making real social change. >> we have been unfolding as the research has been progressing. we are finding a consistent picture are talking about immigration in a positive way. they enjoy being part of the multicultural surprise. however we found in certain countries that there are certain concerns and i think in general what we have picked up is that younger people are more frustrated with the lack of initiatives and kind of coming-out and humanitarian and

they have began to push for change. and so we have found more resistance and concerned than earlier on. >> did that play a role in the canadian campaign to . >> it was a uncle's family, but they did have relatives in canada and i think that they started the official immigration process and i think it did play into the election and people were very concerned. at one point of the election that is where partisanship kind of toned down which was nice to see. and so i think that was one of our key campaign promises to

have over 25,000 refugees before the end of the year. so i think that one thing the last couple of days is that refugees needs to be an opportunity and now the government is trying to push forward. >> hello, i'm a policy advisor. what we are experiencing now in europe, we talked about the issue of authenticity and how important it is and of course this is the right way to go. you don't just engage with young people, you have to be doing this and long-term. what we see in the states is

politicians being lured by the powers of populism and that is another shiny way of engaging with young people. and in certain countries we see that this medium is thoughtful, politicians engage with younger people because they found emotional, they found populace. and that is a way to be popular amongst younger generations as well. so i just wanted to get an opinion across the panel on how difficult it is to not go down this road of populism. and appear authentic and this time. it is definitely popular.

>> i think we have a strong responsibility. especially in europe we do have a strong request from young people and they are grounded requests, it's not like it used to be in the past. that includes the possibility of having children is going to be lowered and we do have that responsibility and i think that they are not doing that. they are not using a productive way. this until in the sense younger

generations show that it is less politically motivated and a sense been ideologically motivated. they are a lot more realistic and it's up to whoever to be able to take this out of the request and make this doable. >> are they attracted to the millennial generation? >> yeah, i mean, on your point about having a responsibility to be authentic, i think what is important is to be true to what the angle is and again i'm going

to speak about the campaign, which is different than being a candidate in the issue we are organizing around and so it's actually that disillusionment with the institution that even makes a campaign possible in the first place and that it is operating kind of outside the normal legislative process to make a change here and then bring the politicians in after, you know, making a cultural change and so it is realistic to have an answer to the problem. and so that includes organizing around a specific issue, what is so valuable is to have not just one kind of populist answer but to have a chorus of voices on the same message and i think that it's that kind of mosaic and rich tapestry of voices

promoting the same message that increases the likelihood that you are going to relate to one of them and find the message relatable. so in terms of the populism idea, i think that bringing in more people to have different perspectives is what really brings in a wider swath of people. [inaudible] and so feeling that we need to do a much better job of

listening and having that two-way dialogue. i haven't heard you talk about personal entrepreneurship because maybe i missed it. but my sense is that there are smart untransformed governments, social entrepreneurs, businesses and solutions collaborative way. and so i think the colonials are really less interested in institutions and hierarchy and more interested in being action oriented and that is what you have said as well. so my question is where is the social entrepreneurship in the equation. my feeling is that governments are and politicians are behind the curve. that a lot of the challenges are being addressed globally rather than going out and tackling them and they are led by younger people. and that governments and people are trying to stay up and they

are a little bit out of date. i would like to chat about that and get perspective. >> i think that young people should be involved at every level. and that we should be encouraging systems. >> i think it has come down that 80% of young people would like to start their own business. that's more of an attitude with life rather than just a specific sector of their engagement for their future life. so i do agree that young people have a for sharing attitude and

the way that they are and i think that the great challenge is how to integrate this which is a lot more modern and away from the selection of candidates and of course we had to make it more flexible to accommodate the society that needs individuals to be more empowered to do things. so i think that be able to have young people and express the potential in these sharing ways that they work. >> i think one of the things that we were able to really do

is empower people to say that this is who i am and this is what i care about and it's not so much that i want to be me being involved in politics as i would like to bring about change it wasn't that they really identified with us as a party but maybe as a particular policy that we were pushing for and i think that was really important. i think the challenge for us is to continue the dialogue and make sure that it is a two-way conversation as i said and that it's not just sort of, you know, we said we would do this, so now we are going to do this, but things happen and change and now we always have to keep that conversation going and that's what we have to focus on. >> yes, i think that when i saw the data, almost 20% of young people want to start their own business and take kind of like

challenges into their own hands and solve them. i think that one of the western you want to answer is how this government institutions, how do we support that kind of initiative and how do we keep them and the momentum going while still working towards engaging people more and also kind of fixing this broken system to allow them to thrive. >> i think that politics stands out as a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to this in their a lot of works with industry set or is it have middle managers there as well and very often it is the millennial is it really hold the answers and who people say is this possible, can we do this.

so i think that politics may have this image, that if i don't get involved in that light actually be engaged or capable or will i have to start and put my way through this group. because i think that reflects the figures that we see young people considering being politicians. i think he would've asked that question 10 or 20 years ago it could have been much more exciting. >> i think one thing that was exciting for us is that we ran a data center campaign and we were using databases and technology in terms of management that really sort of took the hierarchy of other things. because people that were younger tended to be more technologically savvy than that really made a difference in engaging young people in the

campaign. so i'm going to tell you how to do things just in terms of what we were trying to do and it was more applicable and young people seemed to take two more quickly. >> we are running out of time, just making one quick comment there. >> hello, i have a question. >> this is needed and it's wonderful what people all over i've been coming to. it demands a fair answer from politics in what has to be done.

and my kids are studying at the university and there is no space anymore available because all sports are full of refugees and this is a magnitude of those that demand that the young generation is doing so much and that we need a european answer. >> i would like if everyone could just join me in thanking our panelists with what i thought would be a wonderful discussion. >> as i said at the beginning, i hope this is the beginning of a conversation, we are really excited about thinking how we as

young people can push the institutions that we work with to be more receptive to our generation. so i think that we have a responsibility to think about how we push politics and politicians and i think that example about data being he an equalizer is an incredibly important one. and we can actually prove that things can be successful, whatever those tactics and tools are that we can share with other campaigns and young people who are engaging in the political process of the day can be more successful and push those institutions both from the inside and outside and i think that pressure of pushing social change and then pushing it from the inside we can actually get to the place where the values and the issues that young people care about her being affected in institutions of power. i look forward to working with you

>> on the next landmark cases, president rouhani's seizure -- president truman's seizures led to a supreme court case on the limit of presidential powers. a 2002 interview with chief justice william rehnquist, who once clerked for robert jackson. >> good afternoon, chief justice rehnquist. on behalf of everybody in pittsburgh, as well as the harry s truman museum and library cosponsoring this event, i would like to thank you for participating in this program. i have a few programs to set the stage as we begin this retrospective. you were a 27-year-old law

clerk, clerking for justice jackson, at the time the seizure case landed in the courts. was this a case everyone expected would be a constitutional landmark? far as onesphere so living in washington was very much that it would. clerks talked about it at lunch. it wasn't just supreme court arguments that received press wereage, the arguments front-page news in the washington papers. would this be the final outcome when it worked through the final outcome? >> i don't think most of us knew what position the justices would take. we did have a vote at lunch. i think we were evenly divided.

>> he had a style of advocacy that you don't hear nowadays. it was very impressive. in general term in got a bunch of questions from the court. >> and archer goldberg participated? >> he participated with an oral argument. >> in your book on the supreme court, you tell a wonderful story about the justices conference that friday, which they voted in private. what do you remember about that? >> the clerks were not present at the conference, but george the bank -- george nebank, my co-clerk and i, were dying to know what happened.

we followed justice jackson into his office, he would tell us what happened in confidence, and he said, the president got licked. >> justice jackson's concurring opinion generally regarded by constitutional scholars as the most significant. what did he say about presidential powers? >> i think that he wrote separately because almost everybody did write separately. the opinions had to be prepared in a fairly short time. they felt the need it to be more said about the thing. justice jackson's concurring opinion classified residential power in three different ways. first acting with the approval of congress. he said only if the whole government is disabled does he lose.

second, where he is acting without congressional authorization or disapproval all congress it don't do what you want to do, do something else. opinion influence the ultimate decision that president truman had exceeded his constitutional power? >> the government made some extraordinary claims at the beginning in the district court. all the authority that george the third had unless it was taken from him by the constitution. outcry imagine the press about this. the government abandoned that argument long before it got to the supreme court. it got the government off on the

long -- wrong foot. >> there was in dublin's about the korean war at that point -- ambivalence about the korean war at that point. >> very much so. ii, you had 14 million people under arms. but a lot of things were restricted on the home front. the korean war just didn't have those restrictions so there is a real ambivalence. was thewould you say last of the steel seizure cases? opinions ofquent the court have adopted justice jackson's concurrence. that kind of try for tatian is probably its contribution. people have expressed the view that had it come up in times of declared war, it might have come at differently. it is one of many cases in this

area. and i think that the concurrence has been pretty much what it stood for. of one of theed great things that allows us to learn history from key people actually participating in it. are recollections relatively meaningful and what's us in a good position to step back a half-century and examine a presidential decision that has largely been lost to history books and law books. >> tune in monday as our landmark cases series explores the limits of residential powers in the 1952 case of youngstown sheet and tube co. versus the united states. today.ican history tv, our new series, road to the

white house rewind. >> who is on what side? senior citizens against the kids? no, let them have it. >> i don't know if you made it to rehearsal. >> you told me to sit facing the coke machine. [laughter] i just do what i am told. 1992look back at the presidential campaign of bill clinton, during a visit to franklin high school in new hampshire. marking 70th anniversary of the nuremberg trial. the documentary on nazi and prison caps. continuing on oral history's. >> my outfit went over. it was a couple days after d-day, when they had enough beach landed to justify it, and my captain came and said, you stay here. , it was one of those times when somebody reached out.

i was left. off they went. it was several days later before i went across and rejoined my outfit. >> an interview with benjamin, a former chief prosecutor for the united states. born in transylvania to a jewish family, emigrated to america. he reflects on living in the u.s. army after law school and being assigned to set up a work runs rich to investigate nazi atrocities -- a war crimes branch to investigate nazi atrocities. get our complete schedule at c-span.org. a signature feature of book tv is our coverage of book fairs and festivals from across the country. nonfiction author talks, interviews and viewer segments. book tv will be live from the 32nd annual book fair.

our coverage starts on saturday. others include representative john lewis discussing his book march. a live call-in with author peggy noonan who talks about her book. judith miller joins us to discuss her book, the story, a reporter's journey. and ted koppel on his book, lights out, a cyber attack. a nation unprepared. on saturday, speak with the author's life. first, t j o'rourke takes her calls on his book thrown under the omnibus. read will take calls on her book fracture -- joy ann reid, will take calls on her book fracture.

>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is prevented -- presented with the irving kristol award. that, candidates because at the florida gop sunshine summit. and live at 7:00 a.m., your calls and comments on washington journal. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu within washington dc for meetings. this is about one hour 15 minutes.

if you believe that ideas matter. >> the american enterprise institute stands at the center of a revolution of ideas of which i have been a part. >> that civil debate and intellectual courage can change the world. ourou believe we should see fellow citizens not as liabilities, but assets. that the social safety net is a great accomplishment of our free market system, but that our main goal must be want to help support lead lives of dignity, self-reliance, and independence. if you believe that real social justice should not the to -- depend on your politics, that rather than fighting for

equality at the finish line, we should be fighting to make the starting line more equal. >> if you believe that american leadership remains the key to a free world, to lifting billions of tyranny and poverty, that american greatness is not just , but our past couple shots about the height expectations the world still has for the united states. if you believe that our best , then, youead of us are not alone. [applause]

host: i am arthur brooks. i am honored to welcome all of you to the 2015 aei award dinner and award lecture. do you believe that america is a force for good in the world? before you say yes, consider that this is a very serious commitment. it's saying that our principles are good for us and others. that is good and decent people, we are willing to share these ideas. we cannot deny america's errors, but we still see the motive of our nation as fundamentally just, and the net effect of our influence is making the world a better place. i believe these ideas are fair and right, because i have seen the evidence around the world. one week ago, my aei colleagues and i were in an indian slum in mumbai. it was the area featured in "slum dog millionaire."

we were shooting a film called "the secret to happiness." i walked for hours in the narrow alleyways among pottery factories, plastic cycling -- plastic recycling plants. krishna started out dirt poor and has pulled himself out of poverty with a small business. he is truly proud of his success. i asked in his secret. his answer, entrepreneurship. what does that mean? here is his definition. "build something, earn a living, serve others, build, earn, serve." where do you suppose he got these crazy ideas? he will tell you himself, from america.

he's never been here before. he knows this. this is what we stand for. this is our ethos. spreading around the world, lifting up people like him in countries like his. he is not alone. since 1970, 2 billion people around the world have been lifted out of absolute poverty and billions have seen democracy for the first time. why? two reasons. first, they saw how we lived in the united eights. based on open society, the rule of law, copyrights, and the reward of hard work. they saw our freedom and prosperity. by copping these ideas, the inspiration and drive that makes our nation so great, the throughout the chains -- threw off the chains of poverty by hundreds of millions. we have a military, diplomatic, and cultural leadership

position. we as it usually peacefully, but when necessary, with force. it can only happen if in the future, we retain confidence in the greatness of our nation, believe in the goodness of our values, learn from our mistakes, and maintain a commitment to serve the rest of the world. we need one more thing. we need friends. we cannot honor our commitment to the world by ourselves. we need friends who share our values. we need outposts of democratic capitalism. we need people who believe in equality, freedom, and the fundamental potential of every signal human being. -- single human being. friends are hard to find in the world. too many nations are silently glad that we leave and find it convenient to free ride on our strength, enjoying the benefits while publicly grouting about our cause and the principles behind her leadership.

to others, american values are a threat, a threat to their power that they maintain that the cost of the poor and oppressed. when we do have a true friend, a collaborator nation in the joyful its primitive building a better world for the people who need it the most, it is important to celebrate that friendship and how much it means to us. that is what we do tonight. [applause] host: no nation is a better friend in democratic capitalism than israel. it is a sister nation in a fight for better, more just world. it is a beacon of hope and a model for neighbors in the region and the world.

tonight, we have a conversation about this friendship and its future with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. tonight, he receives the irving kristol award. honoring our friend is our commitment to our nations own values -- nation's own values. i first want to hand the microphone to bill kristol, who will explain the irving kristol award, his father's great legacy. he will say a few words about how we choose the recipient of this award. ladies and gentlemen, bill kristol. mr. kristol: it is an honor to welcome all of you to this dinner, and a particular honor to welcome the prime minister of israel, prime minister netanyahu. it is an honor to have you here. many of you, an increasing number of you each year i

suppose, did not know him. let me try to capture him in the words of my guest. here's a letter he wrote to my mother a little over six years ago.

"i was sad to hear of irving's passing. his intellectual contributions will be felt for many decades to come. his unwavering defense of the bodies in principles of a free society, influenced presidents and prime ministers alike. he remains the proudest of jews and the staunchest of israel's defenders. i will always treasure my conversations with him about the years in which his eyes twinkled

and his wisdom showed. with deep respect, benjamin netanyahu. thank you for that wonderful condolence letter which meant so much to my mother. i think it was an accurate portrayal of my father. for those of you interested in reading his writings or about him, levy refer you to website -- let me refer you to a website, irvingkristol.org. we have put together curated websites devoted to making the internet more easily success -- accessible to all of us and future generations. this project isn't directly involved with or connected to aei, but it turns out to be, in a way, and unintentional tribute. it is amazing how many of these thinkers have been affiliated in one way or another with aei. martin diamond, leon kass, many more. one of the next websites going up is devoted to the work of charles murray. it emphasizes just how central

aei has been and remains to american thought in american public life over the past couple of decades. you're not here to hear from me. that's difficult for me to believe. [laughter] mr. kristol: you're here to hear from benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister of israel. a leader in the free world, i'm happy to still use that term today. thank you for honoring us with your presence. let me please turn over the podium to the chairman of aei, george priest. [applause] george priest: thank you very much, bill. i am the chair of the aei council of academic advisors.

on the official host of this event. i have done absolutely nothing to prepare for this. [laughter] george priest: the principle is to bestow the irving kristol award. there are other members of the kristol family here that i would like us all to recognize. bee kristol, his widow. a member of the council. we are happy to have her here tonight. [applause] george priest: we have elizabeth nelson, and susan kristol, bill's wife. we are happy to have them, too.

[applause] george priest: many of you might think tonight's event is just a big d.c. party with a prominent speaker followed by dancing. that is wrong. it is that, but it is also academic. the council of academic advisors of aei comprises of academics from leading universities around the country assembled by aei to serve two duties. to review the work of aei scholars to make sure we meet academic standards. the job of the council is to make certain that the work of aei scholars is solid, that it is imperically defensible. the second job of the council is

to select, each year, the person most deserving of the irving kristol award. as arthur mentioned, it is the highest honor the start by aei. we have delegated this task to an academic council, not just to its executive board. a group of academics can select the person who has made extra mary intellectual or practical contributions to contribute to government policy and welfare. this year, we have chosen to bestow this award to benjamin netanyahu, prime minister of israel. we are very honored to have you here to receive this award.

as arthur mentioned, tonight's program will consist of a discussion between prime minister netanyahu and daniel putka. danny, i am certain we will raise many important issues with the prime minister. in order to set the stage, i would like to pose a question which i think was discussed by members of the council and is, of course, to broader concern of all of us, including all citizens around the world. how is it possible to achieve peace in the middle east? 20 years ago, at the time of the first, i asked this question to a friend who teaches at yale. it is common, maybe just for americans, to believe that wars have a beginning and an end.

first, they saw how we live in the united states. they saw an open society. property rights. they saw our freedom and prosperity in by copying these ideas, the inspiration and the drive, they threw off the chains of poverty. they saw that america is a service leader nation. we have a military, diplomatic, and systematic way to share our ideas. usually peacefully, but what necessary, i force. but it can only happen if we retain confidence, believe in the fundamental goodness of our values, learn from our mistakes, and maintain our commitment to serve the rest of the world. and one more thing. friends. we cannot honor our commitment to the world by ourselves. we need friends. we need outpost. we need people who believe in

this is attributed to kant. there is no theoretical support, with the up section of saying that people would not support wars. in particular, by the palestine-israeli dispute. if one can say hamas is a democracy. wars do not usually occur in countries that embrace the market order. there is nothing to gain in the long run in the context of

market economies if it cannot be achieved more sustainably through mutually beneficial interactions in the market. with all due respect, i would this question to prime minister netanyahu. why shouldn't israel promote a lively economy for gaza? i believe a vibrant palestinian economy would change the relationship between israel and palestine. i am conscious of the security concerns that remain, which are not at all to feel. i believe they will diminish as the west bank and gaza economy develops. for example, as the colonies have the arrival of consumers. just as a small town in america welcomes the arrival of new neighbors. i am sure danny will raise this

and other issues in our discussion tonight. we are looking forward to the remarks of prime minister netanyahu. thank you. [applause] >> now, ladies and gentlemen, the main event. this is the largest dinner in aei's history. why is that? perhaps you're thinking it is because of the food or the band. you are wrong. at their very good, but it is because of our honored guest. few world leaders today are as popular as prime minister benjamin netanyahu. in america, we are fond of polling. it is no surprise mr. netanyahu is pulling better than the leaders of either of our parties. [applause] this, i suspect, presents an interesting opportunity for the prime minister given that we have an election coming up.

prime minister netanyahu has been an unflinching supporter of the values we share at aei and in this room. he has not only a great political but also a great economic leader. he managed israel from a successful country to a wildly successful startup nation and along the way he has maintained toughness for his country and shared our cause in a world that is frequently hostile to both. benjamin netanyahu is an unapologetic friend to america. not democratic america, not republican america, not jewish america, but to every one of us. his accomplishments are well known and too numerous for me to list. it is our honor tonight to have him as the awardee of a -- of

our irving kristol award. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome with me prime minister benjamin netanyahu. [applause] pm netanyahu: yes. >> can anyone hear me?

i know you are here for me. [chuckles] [indiscernible] >> this is my opportunity to think. we apologize for that momentary disturbance. mr. prime minister, let me welcome you again to the american enterprise institute. we are delighted to have you here. make you very much.

pm netanyahu: i am not used to receiving awards in israel. especially not from the media. i do get them from the public on the election day. but, it is very moving for me to be here. i do remember irving kristol as a great intellect. he was a fearless intellect. political correctness was thrown out of the window, he called it like he saw it to ent had a profound influence on many. he had a profound influence on me. i consider myself honored and privileged to have spent many hours with him. i think he has left a great legacy and a great family and i want to especially welcome his wife. i have read her books. believe it or not, -- it is a tremendous book. this is a tremendous family that goes on into next generations. i am deeply honored to receive this award from you.

thank you. [applause] >> i do not think anybody sitting here in this room would underestimate the affection with which the american enterprise institute, our entire family and community has for irving's legacy. thank you so much for saying that. now, let me pick up where i was. just a quick -- for those of us who have been with us before, in years past we have had our honorees give a speech from the podium. the sure, we're going to have a conversation. we thought it would be more interesting, a little bit more and lightning for some of us, and in addition, it would provide an opportunity to hear about a range of issues of importance to everybody. more importantly, there are some who might be a little disappointed that i'm not going to interrogate you in washington

style about a variety of issues. i would like to remind our guests that aei is not a news organization. we are a think tank. we are interested in the big questions. if we can take something away, i hope it will be big answers. pm netanyahu: i hope this catches on. it is wonderful. [laughter] [applause] danielle: we are all about leadership. mr. netanyahu, you have said israel is oh-american. pro-american. it will always be pro-american. you have spent many years in the united states, as did your father. tell me what is at the heart of your affection for the united states. pm netanyahu: freedom. the idea of individual choice. that is developed with a

collective purpose. that defines israel, it defines america. these are two societies built on a purpose. on the idea of freedom. i have spoken to congress a number of times, into each time i look and i see the emblem of moses. it says a lot. the idea of the promised land. the land of freedom, freedom from bondage. freedom to pursue your huge. so, i think this is the identity of conviction. there is something else that i think has to be seen in an historical context. we were a people scattered among the nations, we had no capacity to defend ourselves and we should have disappeared. most stations that existed in the past do not exist today and

certainly a nation scattered from its land into becoming utterly defenseless, subject to the whims, the worst whims of humanity, should have disappeared. we gathered into came back to the land of israel, the promised land. rebuilt our country when we repossessed the power to defend ourselves. it was said here before, that our -- all powers, all countries, even great powers need alliances. we need alliance, too. we did not have that alliance in the first half of the 20th century. when the founding fathers of zionism identified the threat of the anti-semitism, the going

threat of anti-semitism in europe. we had no capacity to build our nation. we built it, having lost 6 million of our brethren. i believe if the united states had been the preeminent world power in the first half of the 20th century, things might have turned out differently. yet, israel was born in mid-century. the united states became a level power at that point. 20th century, things might have turned out differently. what a difference it a. it made a difference for the whole world. it made a difference for us in that we had a partner. i think that not only the common ideals of israel and the united states that were mentioned here,

i think it is also the active role of the united states in defending liberty around the world and standing by its allies, in this case the best ally of the united states, israel. i think it has made a world of difference. i bet on this alliance. i would not sell the united states short, i would not sell israel short, and i'm not at all diminish the importance of this alliance. i think it is pivotal for the future of this world. if yes we about it more, i will tell you more for -- i will tell you more.

this is what i believe. [applause] i have a sore throat. danielle: you like the united states and you -- like the united states, which was founded on a big idea by people seeking freedom, israel, too, was founded on a big idea. the country is come a long way since 1896 and the jewish state. is zionism still the animating idea of the state of israel? is there another direction that israel goes in? where does israel real go in the 21st century? pm netanyahu: having not had a state for 200 years, we have secured it again but we have to secure the jewish future. that is what zionism is about. giving the jewish people the ability to have their own independent state.

this is an ongoing effort. the challenges keep changing. you want to make sure you have the inner strength to confront these challenges and also to make these alliances that i talked about. nobody makes alliances with the week. t --he weak. and nobody makes peace with the weak. so we have to make sure the country is strong. strong militarily, but that is expensive.

i hope you know that. very expensive. so, the only way you can actually find israel's defenses to safeguard the jewish future is to have a very vibrant economy. the only way you are going to have a very vibrant economy is to make sure it is a free market economy. that is something that i devoted a good part of my life to do and i think that we are successful in doing that, because in israel what is happening now is that we are harnessing the power and innovation to the power of free

markets. if you have intellectual or technological brilliance, but you have no free markets, it is not going to go anywhere. the former soviet union had incredible metallurgists, and cripple physicists, incredible mathematicians, -- incredible physicists, and incredible mathematicians. if you took them on a plane and them in palo alto, they would reduce in three weeks. israel had incredible technologists, scientists, but we have to liberate our markets. it is a us as i have something to do with. as a result, it is becoming, i would say, the preeminent or one of the two great centers of innovation in the world. as a result, our ability to make

alliances is shifting. we are now in a extraordinary relationship with two small countries in asia, india and china. in japan. together, we account for roughly china. 2.5 billion people in the world. they are all coming to this new israel. you ask where israel is going.

in the century of conceptual products and knowledge, the ones who will prosper are those who can innovate faster. israel is a speed chess innovator. we do not have that large a number of innovators, but we have a very, very large number of very fast innovators. our culture promotes that. so, i think israel is moving into a leadership position. in technology. i will give you a number to illustrate this because i think it is important that i take this away from general concept and make it concrete. in 2014, as a result of a deliver it policy that my government is leading, israel had 10% of the global investments in cyber security. that is 100 times our size. in 2015, he trumped that number. they received double that amount. we received 50% of the global investment in cyber security. in cyber, we are punching 200

times above our weight. this is an indication of how you can increase short capacities and how you can harness your nat ingenuity both for international power and connections. i read a book by a wonderful writer named will durrant. he wrote some oval volumes on history -- some 12 volumes on history. towards the end of his life, he wrote a small book. 100 inches long. it is called, "the lessons of history." well worth reading. i've as they repented. every sentence is pregnant with meaning and insight. -- i suggest they reprint it. every sentence is pregnant with meaning and insight. if i could crystallize what durrant is saying, he says in history numbers count. that is, big nations overcome smaller nations because they have bigger gdp. they can have your military and so on. and then on to its 19 or so he says, there are exceptions sometimes when nations can harness a cultural force. he says the young state of israel may be an example of such an exception. well, half a century later, i think we proved a point. where do we go? we maintained the defenses of the jewish state will stop we

maintain its economy. the allow our ingenuity to floors. we become a technological powerhouse. income will with the help, that in the great battle between mentor -- modernity and medievalism that afflict our area, more dignity winds. -- modernity wins. in that case, we all win. [applause] danielle: there is a big battle between medievalism and more dignity and your part of the world. you talk about markets in capitalism being the idea that we'll all israel into the century and beyond. there are other ideas at play in the region. there are a lot of people in suggest that in fact, one of the things animating those terrorist groups that have risen up through the region and dark tyrannize saying most of the people, many of the people of the middle east, that to they are founded on in idea. the many drone strikes, it airstrikes, even the ground is that happen without having an idea to substitute their.

we cannot win. you cannot be something, as one of my colleagues says, with nothing. what i want to ask you is as the leader of one of the only truly democratic market economies in the middle east, what is the idea that is going to beat this? democracy? xina benjamin netanyahu: it certainly created freedom. there is a process in which the arab world and parts of the islamic world would move toward the idea to greater freedom. it is not automatic. it is certainly a good contrast to the tyranny and severed three they are experiencing now. the apprentice afflicting

muslims. millions have been displaced, hundreds of thousands butchered. they have a good idea of what they do not want. i actually think that sometimes in these kinds of battles, it is first of all important to win physically. win. fight. i mean, combating nazis, beating them, first of all, you have to win. [applause] pm netanyahu: it is very important not to allow these east's to powell. -- these beasts to prowl. you have these two human streams spreading misery. i spoke to the prime minister of italy and to david cameron and two angela merkel in the last few weeks and i said, i do not want to talk about isis, that is politically loaded, you can ask me later. but i wanted to speak about boko haram, you know, there must be at least 12, probably closer to 20 liters of african nations who came to israel, just as asia is coming to israel and they only won three things from us. israeli technology, israeli technology, and israeli

technology. the african states all, and they say, we want israel he technology in agriculture and health care and irrigation. they'll come down to one word. security. help us in security. i suggested to some of the european countries a simple partnership. the form consortiums. to deal with -- the form consortiums to deal with foreign countries, help them with security. the islamist movement in africa is not yet strong. they can't be defeated today. they can be defeated today. they can be defeated today. they can be defeated today. you have to win the battle. the earlier you win it, the cheaper it will be. the longer you wait, eventually these forces will dissipate because there is no hope. there is no future for a world of darkness. i think the islamists will lose out. but it may take decades. it may take cap a century. nazism was defeated, but it

claimed the lives of tens of millions of people, and one third of my people. defeating them early is important. we will defeat them in the battle of ideas, but let us defeat them on the ground as well. [applause]

danielle: i hope you will not mind if i push you more on this question. there are plenty of voices growing in volume both in the united states and i think even in israel who suggest we are better off with the qaddafi's and the sidearms and the us odds in place to attempt down on the islamists who rise up and that secular dictatorship is really the solution we should look for for the rest of the middle east. others say democracy is only there for islamism to rise up. where do you come down on their? pm netanyahu: there was a woman, jean come patrick -- [applause] pm netanyahu: and i read an article she had written called dictators and double standards,

and she said, basically in this article, she said, we are committed to the larger battle against soviet totalitarianism and on occasion we d side for the larger goal, to make arrangements with secular dictatorships. that is basically what she said. now, mind you, saddam was horrible. horrible. a brutal killer. so was could off he. there is no question of -- so was qaddafi. i had my own dealings with each of them. what i do want to say they were

in many ways neighborhood woollies. that is, they tormented their immediate environment. but they were not wedded it to a larger goal -- they tormented their immediate environment, but they were not wedded to a larger goal. even though hamas is sunni, the militant sunnis led by isis, they had a larger goal in mind. not merely the conquest of the middle east, it is the conquest of the world. it is unbelievable. people do not believe that. they do not believe it is

possible to have this quest for a caliphate in the me first century, but that is exactly what is guiding them. and, again this larger threat that could, that would present 2 islam extent, each one of them seeking to arm themselves with weapons of mass death. chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, that this is a formidable threat to our world. if i had to categorize the threats, i would say these are the larger threat. it does not mean you have to form alliances with secular dictatorships, in means you have to categorize what is the larger threat. that is something i think is required from all of us. political leadership involves always choosing between bad and worse. i seldom have had a choice

between bad and good. i welcome it when it happens, but these are by far the easiest choices. it is choosing between bad and worse that defines a good part of the leadership. i think i know how to choose that. [applause] danielle: let's talk about syria and then turned to iran. syria is out of control. the situation seems to be going from bad to worse. when you think about this, how do you see the implications for israel? how do you see this affecting israel? how do you see solutions that israel can affect? pm netanyahu: i have this weakness, i.e. you know, i have done a lot of economic reforms in israel. about 60. a lot. you can ask me later about them. these economic reforms, the most difficult problem in the country

is what people would think is conceptual. it is getting the concept right. especially if you can or would from others and see what work. then, you just have to fit it to your own country. and then you have the battle with all of the vested interests and so on but i find that boring. it is the first part, deciding what is the right thing to do that always takes the largest effort and also the greatest intellectual investment. it is pretty easy to do in economics, in education, in other things. if i see a situation where i do not have a clear concept, i do not charge in. in syria, i do not see a simple concept. because, you choose here between a horrible secular did leadership or the two other prospects that would be buttressed by iran. you would have iran run syria, a

horrible prospect for us or dash. when two of your enemies are fighting each other, i do not say strengthen one or the other, i say leave them both. or at least, do not intervene. which is what i have done. i have not intervened. i think i was the first country several years ago to put to military hospital 10 yards away from our border with syria. we have taken in thousands of syrians. children, women, men, him to you today to it, horrible conditions. given them treatment and israeli hospitals. we never show the because of

they are photographed and they are seen and then rehabilitated and they go back to their villages or towns, they will be executed on the spot. but other than that, i have left the internal battle in syria untouched, because i am not sure what to choose. you have to openly admit it. here is what i do define in syria. i do not want syria to be used as a launching ground for attacks against us. in i have said this to vladimir putin when i flew to moscow to see him. i went to see him first to make sure that our planes do not crash at each other. not a good idea. but i told him, here is what we do in syria. we will not allow iran to set up a second front in the goal line -- in the goal line and we will act forcefully to prevent that. we will not allow the use of syrian territory from which we would be attacked by the syrian army or anyone else. we have acted forcefully against that. and we will not allow the use of syrian territory for the transfer of game-changing weapons into lebanon. into hezbollah hands.

we have acted forcefully on that. i made it clear we will continue to act that way. i said to vladimir putin -- i said, whatever your goals are in syria, these are our goals and we will continue to act that way. think that message was received. now, there is talk now of in arrangement in syria. i spoke about it today in a very good conversation with president obama. i said that any arrangement that is struck in syria, if one is achievable, i am not sure. i am not sure hoped he dumped it can be put back together. i have strong doubts. i am not sure of syria as a state can be reconstituted. but whatever arrangements are made in syria, that do not preclude iran from continuing its aggression against us directly or transferring weapons to hezbollah, that does not a blushes. we have very clear policy demands in syria. we keep them and will continue to keep them. the defense of israel is what concerns me is syria first and foremost. on that, we will continue to act forcefully. i said that any arrangement that

is struck in syria, if one is achievable, i am not sure. i am not sure hoped he dumped it can be put back together. i have strong doubts. i am not sure of syria as a state can be reconstituted. but whatever arrangements are made in syria, that do not preclude iran from continuing its aggression against us directly or transferring weapons to hezbollah, that does not a blushes. we have very clear policy demands in syria. we keep them and will continue to keep them. the defense of israel is what concerns me is syria first and

foremost. on that, we will continue to act forcefully. [applause] danielle: let me ask you about iran. the arabians are embroiled in syria. these are good times for them. we see them interviewing and yemen without too much push back. in bahrain, in lebanon. they are active in the west bank in gaza. they are everywhere without push back. do you see iran as being constrained or in some way moderating its actions because of the joint comprehensive plan of action, that are known as the iran deal? how do you see iran's ambitions playing out?

pm netanyahu: it is no secret we had a disagreement. on the nuclear issue. that deal was signed. i think right now, we have to concentrate on three things. to prevent iran from -- i was concerned with two things. one that iran violates the deal, the other than iran keeps the deal. in 15 years, they have a clear path to producing the and richest uranium for a massive nuclear arsenal. i am still concerned with that aspect. right now, we are in agreement that we want to creep -- keep iran's feet to the fire to make sure they do not violate the deal. the president and i spoke about that today. we will cooperate to make sure iran does not cheat and believe

me, it has a proclivity for cheating. they have a vested interest in by we, i mean the united states and israel, not only israel, to prevent iran's conventional aggression. remember iran is not only arming hezbollah, the trying to build a second front. supplying hamas and gaza and islam it she had with attack weapons. acting in yemen trying to undermine jordan. you name it. also, building and arms industry 50,000 men strong that produces submarine satellites, precision rocketry, and many other advanced weapons. iran could pursue this aggression if it is not met with force. i think the second thing, other

they on keeping their feet to the fire, is supporting your allies. the most important ally and the most important counter venture in force with iran is the state of israel. support israel. [applause] if i can be subtle enough, and the president and i discussed today a memorandum of understanding for american military support for israel for the next 10 years. imagine the middle east without israel. what do you think would happen? in our immediate vicinity so mark i have to be diplomatic, i will leave it to your imagination. now imagine a middle east with three as well as. one in afghanistan, one in

israel, one near yemen. it would be a different situation. the support for israel i am talking about, the united states supports israel to the tune of $3 billion a year. ok? you spend on the war in afghanistan and iraq a trillion and a half, so that is five centuries worth of support for israel. i think secretary carter and the president today said that supporting israel is not just important for israel, it is something we deeply appreciate, but it is also a very solid investment and american security as well. we are in ally that does not ask for any american troops. we never have and we do not attend -- in 10 two. we can defend ourselves we just want to have the tools. the second thing and fighting iran is giving israel the tools to defend itlf and deter iran.

there is a third item that i think is essential. iran is not merely practicing aggression in the middle east, iran is building a terror network in both hemispheres. adding another cell roughly every four weeks. when i say both hemispheres, that obviously includes the western hemisphere. this hemisphere. i think this terror network that is growing rapidly should be torn apart. so three things. deep their feet to the fire. support your allies. -- keep their feet to the fire. support your allies, this ally first. and it will be left to history

to see if iran will modernize and reform under this clique. i have my doubts, i hope i am wrong. i suspect i will be proven right, but i will be delighted if the takeover in around has not yet happened. daniel: i think we'll all be delighted. normally i would cut things off, but i want to press you on an issue i know you are reluctant to talk about. israel's economy. pm netanyahu: i love that one. daniel: you tell us. what do you want people to take away. that is my last question. go for it. by minister benjamin netanyahu

think the supremacy of free markets is not self-evident. i think it has to be explained. i think first of all you have to get things conceptually right. the second thing is to communicate it effectively. when i became finance minister in the midst of a crisis in 2003, we were in a horrible crisis. our economy was shrinking, our gdp per capita wished thinking. we had terrible unemployment and so on. most people thought it was because of the intifada we had at the time or the collapse. the bubble bursting and so on. that had an effect on us. that certainly contributed to it, but i did not think that was the major problem. i had about three weeks to come up with an economic plan that

ultimately made many changes in israel. i thought, how do i communicate this to a country that does not have lemonade stands when you are a kid. when i was a child, you could see this was a made fighter and this was a mig fighter. we did not have lemonade stands, we had a fairly semi-socialist economy. so how to i explained the idea of free markets and their centrality in today's free world? so, three weeks later i did a is conference and i said, i want to fall back on my first day in basic training in the israeli paratroops. the commander put us in a straight line and he said, you are now going to take a race. a special kind of race. each man looked to his right, you are the first man appointed to me.

but the gun to be right on your shoulder. the next mandate that. the guy after him did that. and then, i got a pretty big eye. he was heavy. the next guy was the smallest guy in the platoon into he got the biggest guy on his shoulders. the third guy was a big eye into got a small guy. and so on. and then, the commander blue the was so. i barely managed -- blew the whistle. i barely managed to move forward. the next guy, the small guy with the bad guy on the shoulders, collapse. the third guy took up like a rocket in one the race. i said, in the modern economy,

all national economies are like sector sitting on the shoulders of a private sector. in our case, the book sector became too big too fast. we are about to collapse. -- the public sector became too big too fast. we're about to collapse. we have to strengthen the man at the bottom, that means lowering tax rates. we have to remove the obstacles to the race. the barriers to competition. by the way, this became known as the fat man-in man thing. taxi drivers could reap that. effectively, we ended up doing exactly that. constrained the growth of public spending. we lowered tax rates. i had a big argument about that. they said, who is this guy? i said, no. his name is laffer. we actually tried it. it works. it worked for us. big-time. [applause] we instituted a lot of reforms. even earlier, as prime minister, in my first term. i removed all constraints on

foreign currency. that was supposed to collapse our economy and of course everybody was warning me that a mountain of money will move. it did. into the country. you know, so we did all of these forms. the consequence of that as we grew 5% a year for a decade. the exception is 2008. we still grew, but we grew at high percent per decade. we have now overcome, you know, past -- many leading economies in the world. if we can continue to it here to free market principles and encourage innovation and open new markets to these new products, new markets, deregulate should and, and infrastructure which we are investing in mightily, i think israel has a brilliant economic future.

the thing that i have to tell you is that although our gdp cap it is rising rapidly, we have a small gdp. we have 8 million people. we can be number one in cyber. we are. we can be number one and many other things, but we are small and therefore we have to compensate that with other means. you is that although our gdp cap among others, the american military assistance which is in valuable. but i think that the race that i described, the thin man-batman race is ongoing -- the thin man- fat man race is ongoing. you have to fear economy. you have to make sure your government does not interfere with ingenuity but promotes it. you can never rest on your laurels. never rest on your laurels. life is competitive. the life of nations is competitive.

you should always hold your competitive edge. this is not something that consultants tell you. it is something that leaders have to do. you have to own the competitive edge of your people. you should have as much alliance as you can with other like-minded states like the united states of america. [applause] danielle: amen. let me say -- pm netanyahu: someone asked me to say why we don't have peace. here is my short answer. i have tools when i am in a press conference. when i have journalists.

they ask me questions, i write all the questions. i write all of the questions. i go to each one. here's my answer to that, here's my answer to that, and on this one, i am fudging. i do not want to fight. i tell them if i am fudging. i want to tell you what the answer is. the reason? first of all, the conflict we have in the middle east is multiple. it used to be said the core of the conflict, in the singular and the middle east, is the israeli-palestinian conflict. that went by the window. when you see around collapse, syria collapse, yemen collapse, libya collapse, everything else in turmoil, nothing to do with

us. the core of the conflict's in the middle east is the battle between modernity and early, primitive medievalism. that is the core of the conflict. it is palestinian refusal to recognize a jewish state in any boundary. this is why this conflict persisted for 50 years before there was a state, before there were territories, before there were settlement. if that were the core of the conflict, the settlements, why did it take place when my grandfather landed in jaffa in 1920? jews were murdered then. or what? there was no west bank. there were no settlements. that continued in 1921, 1929, 1936, 1939, 1948. what was that all about? 1967. for nearly half a century. we were being attacked because there was a persistent refusal to accept us in any boundary. well, we got into these territories as a result of the conflict. and what arab propaganda has done by endless -- is to return this. how do we know that is the case? we left gaza. every last centimeter, and they are still firing rockets at us from gaza. when you asked him, why are you doing this, is it to liberate the west bank? they say, yes, sure, that, too. but it is deliberate. jaffa. they always get back to jaffa. so, now we turn to the other guys. to the palestinian authority, not to hamas. at least they do not practice violence, but that is important. i say, what about you? are you willing to recognize the jewish state? are you willing to recognize the fact you have a nation-state for the palestinian people, how about a nation have been state for the jewish people.

after all, we've oy been there almost 4000 years. we recognize there are two peoples there, we are willing to make the deal. are you willing to make the deal? are you willing to recognize the jewish state? because there is no point in making another palestinian state, another arab state, that will continue the battle against the jewish state question mark are you willing to end the conflict? give up the claim, make peace? you know what happens when you ask them not? they move. they say, i am willing to recognize israel. i did not ask israel. i said, are you willing to terminate all claims to the jewish state? you won't get jaffa.

you will not get refugees. the answers, they will not will stop we will have peace when the palestinians will afford us what they ask us to afford them. we are willing to let them have a state of their own, but they have to reconcile themselves to the fact that we have a state of our own and it is here to stay. that is the core of the problem. [applause] in the mideast, medievalism against identity, is the against the palestinian, refusal to recognize a jewish state in any boundary. i hope that will change. but i have my mind on making sure until it changes, that yes, we work up the economy to create at least and economic future. if the palestinians follow the prescriptions i have given here for market development, they will be better off economically and we will move to steps closer

to peace. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the formal part of our program. [applause] in the mideast, medievalism against identity, is the against the palestinian, refusal to recognize a jewish state in any boundary. i hope that will change. but i have my mind on making sure until it changes, that yes, we work up the economy to create at least and economic future. if the palestinians follow the prescriptions i have given here for market development, they will be better off economically and we will move to steps closer

to peace. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the formal part of our program. we move on now to delicious dinner, dancing, and a safe drive home. god bless america, god bless israel, and god bless all of you.

cases,he next landmark president truman's seizure led to a supreme court case on the limits of presidential powers. we learn what went on behind the scenes. here is a two dozen to interview with william rehnquist who once clerked for robert jackson who wrote the famous opinion in the case. justiceafternoon chief rehnquist.

>> good afternoon, chief justice rehnquist. on behalf of everybody in pittsburgh, as well as the harry s truman museum and library cosponsoring this event, i would like to thank you for participating in this program. i have a few programs to set the stage as we begin this retrospective. you were a 27-year-old law clerk, clerking for justice jackson, at the time the seizure case landed in the courts. was this a case everyone expected would be a constitutional landmark? >> the atmosphere so far as one living in washington was very much that it would. the law clerks talked about it at lunch. it wasn't just supreme court arguments that received press coverage, the arguments were front-page news in the washington papers. >> did you have any sense what would be the final outcome?

>> i don't think most of us knew what position the justices would take. we did have a vote at lunch. i think we were evenly divided. >> what do you remember most vividly of the oral argument? >> he had a style of advocacy that you don't hear nowadays. it was very impressive. solicitor general perlman got a bunch of questions from the court. >> and archer goldberg participated? >> he participated with an oral argument. >> in your book on the supreme court, you tell a wonderful story about the justices conference that friday, which they voted in private. what do you remember about that? >> the clerks were not present

at the conference, but george nebank, my co-clerk and i, were dying to know what happened. we followed justice jackson into his office, he would tell us what happened in confidence, and he said, the president got licked. >> justice jackson's concurring opinion generally regarded by constitutional scholars as the most significant. what did he say about presidential powers? >> i think that he wrote separately because almost everybody did write separately. the opinions had to be prepared in a fairly short time. they felt the need it to be more said about the thing. justice jackson's concurring opinion classified presidential power in three different ways. first, acting with the approval of congress.

jackson said only if the whole government is disabled does he lose. second, where he is acting without congressional authorization or disapproval all stop congress it don't do what finally, congress said don't do what you want to do, do something else. >> did public opinion influence the ultimate decision that president truman had exceeded his constitutional power? >> the government made some extraordinary claims at the beginning in the district court. all the authority that george the third had unless it was taken from him by the constitution. you can imagine the press outcry about this.

the government abandoned that argument long before it got to the supreme court. it got the government off on the wrong foot. >> there was ambivalence about the korean war at that point. >> very much so. world war ii, you had 14 million people under arms. but a lot of things were restricted on the home front. the korean war just didn't have those restrictions so there is a real ambivalence. >> what would you say was the last of the steel seizure cases? >> the subsequent opinions of the court have adopted justice jackson's concurrence. that kind of try for tatian is probably its contribution.

people have expressed the view that had it come up in times of declared war, it might have come at differently. it is one of many cases in this area. and i think that the concurrence has been pretty much what it stood for. >> i am reminded of one of the great things that allows us to learn history from key people actually participating in it. your recollections are relatively meaningful and what's us in a good position to step back a half-century and examine a presidential decision that has largely been lost to history books and law books. thank you chief justice rehnquist for introducing the program. >> tune in monday as our landmark cases series explores the limits of residential power in the 1962 case of youngstown sheet and tube co. versus the united states. ♪ >> c-span presents, landmark

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held what we would consider to be modern law. hearsay is perfectly acceptable. innocent until proven guilty had not. yet been in place. there were no lawyers at the time. the courtroom is an extremely unruly place. in that we don't believe witchcraft, or prosecute witchcraft today. >> author stacy schiff talks about her book the witches. the scope and effect that accusations and trials had on the massachusetts community. x interesting part about the accusations wealthy merchants were accused and sea captains were accused. to be witches. an incident where all the victims were female. and we didn't earn the witches,

we hanged them. important.as >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. et and "q&a." on c-span's next, a republican presidential candidate speak at the florida gop sunshine summit. >> republican presidential candidates were featured at the second day of the florida republican sunshine summit. we will hear from rick santorum, jim gilmore, governor bobby jindal, senator rand paul, governor chris christie, governor john kasich, and carly fiorina. this is him us three hours. -- this is almost three hours.

sen. santorum: thank you. thank you. thank you very much. it is great to be back in the homestead of my mother who lives here in florida. she is 97 as of two weeks ago. it is great to be here. heree to tell you, i am with a heavy heart, as many of you are watching the news over the last 24 hours. the horrible attacks in paris by isis. certainly, our thoughts and prayers go out to our first ally, france. for them, and if we had better leadership, help them. that is the other point, i come out here feeling upset. isis is a creation of a political decision by hillary

clinton and barack obama. [applause] to abandon iraq against all of our generals' recommendations, against all of the policy recommendations, barack obama and hillary clinton, under her watch, decided politics above the security of our country and the civilians' security of the world. from that, was born isis. we are now seeing the effects that domestic political decisions have on the world. we have a president who said, isis was contained, yesterday he said that. shrinking.s was he is either uninformed, dishonest, or delusional and probably all three. [applause]

president, by the way, hillary clinton when she issued her statement, she called the extremists,violent never define the enemy. timek obama has spent his talking about the greatest national security threat to our country. global jihadists? no, it is carbon dioxide, hold your breath otherwise you will destroy the world. barack obama, hillary clinton, they have created the most dangerous world that any new presidents is it going to have to assume the leadership of. that is why your decision is so important.

because you are going to have to, you heard frank and others talk about the importance of florida, you'll need to make it tough decision. this is a lot of talented people, a lot of them you have seen in the last 24 hours, you will see more today. good men and women, but your decision is who is best able to lead this country, do we need another inexperienced, young inexperienced president to come timeoffice anytime -- in a when the world is on fire. i was in israel and netanyahu's closest adviser said, please tell the people of the united states, that they will elect a wartime president. do you have any doubt, after yesterday, that that is the case? the commander in chief is not an entry-level position. this is a serious, serious world

were allies and our enemies have to understand who the next leader of the free world will be. ago, isis published an online magazine, they do so on a regular basis. and i was featured in that magazine. a picture of me and a quotes from me, under the headline, and the words of our enemy. no other presidential candidate has been in isis magazine. [laughter] no president has been under the heading in the magazine. they know who i am and i know who they are. [applause] [applause] know who they are, they are a group of radical muslims,

jihadists, who are trying to bring back a form of seventh century islam and apply it in a counterfeit, in the center of the islamic world. i have a recommendation. if they want to bring back seventh century islam, let's accommodate them by bombing them back to the seventh century. [applause] we need someone who they know is serious, not just in isis, but also the even greater threat. i know our vision is focused on isis right now, but the bigger threat, the more consequential one in iran. -- is iran. iran is the one, thanks to this president and thanks to hillary

clinton, now on a pathway to developing a nuclear weapon. they have an agreement in place that will create an opportunity for them to develop, legally, legitimately, under the united nations, nuclear capabilities and weapons. and as you have heard, this is not your garden-variety muslims who control iran. they were the first to establish the revolutionary republic of iran, they are apocalyptic islamists, they believe in the end of times. these are the people we are giving a nuclear weapon to. these are the people given the ability to not just attack the state of israel, i am concerned about the state of israel, but i am more concerned about the united dates. -- states. iran with a nuclear weapon is not just a threat to israel, it is a threat to every man and

woman in this country and we need a leader like we had back in 1980. who, when you get sworn into office, the other side knows, the other side knows, the enemy knows who they are dealing with. [applause] 11 years ago i authored legislation to put sanctions on the iran nuclear program. i have been a leader in the senate and afterwards in trying to constrain their nuclear program. bill to puted that sanctions on the development of a nuclear program, i brought that bill to the floor of the senate and unfortunately it was opposed, by both republicans and

democrats who wanted to negotiate with iran. republicansy, some including the president, opposed me. but many democrats and republicans supported me, i only lost by four votes. -- do you know who that was, clinton, obama, biden and kerry. you want to somebody who understands. not only do we have somebody who comeome to the podium, but to the podium and the enemy knows that you mean business. there is no doubt in my mind that we will do whatever is necessary to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon, they know i mean it. because i have been saying it for more than a decade. is, when young nominate a republican printed --

candidate for president who goes to the podium and hillary clinton is at the other one, we need to have somebody who can and be experienced, have knowledge, conviction, courage, somebody who has been tested. somebody who has experience. somebody who you can trust. you may say, you don't trust hillary clinton, you cannot argue with her experience. at a time when we are on the verge of a global war, and we are, the american public will be very concerned about who they will vote for to lead this country. experience will matter. let's be very clear, a lot of good people in this race, very few with experience. we have seen what has happened during debates when you go up against somebody like president obama.

and you do not have experience other than what you are briefed on. opportunity after opportunity was passed, because you do not go again someone he knows more than you do. is sos why this election serious, we need to win. we have to win this election and to do so we better have someone with experience like i have on the armed services committee, on offering bills and passing them on syria and iran. somebody who has written books, spent time any think tank and driven the issue of radical jihadists. ladies and gentlemen, this is an important time in our history and we cannot miss this opportunity. by putting up somebody who is not ready to take on this challenge. look at the issue of immigration. everybody looks at the issue and thinks when you hear the word

immigration, what do you think of? you think of the illegal immigrant who crossed the border and what will we do about them? that is because democrats have driven the narrative of that is what we should talk about. that is not my narrative. that is not what is about. it is a policy no different from health care, or tax policy. what should those policies be about, what is in the best interest of the american people. [applause] [applause] who would come forward with tax policy and say, i want to make sure the tax chiefs don't get punished? we have to have a leader on the issue of immigration that understands national security implications.

we have a president that is bringing in thousands of syrians and we have republicans supporting that. thousands of syrians, you know who's passport was found in france, a syrian passport. to suggest that we have the ability to determine his these people are who are coming from the middle east right now, coming as refugees, to determine whether they will be threats, we do not know. we can't know. [applause] [applause] i do not say this as i am opposed to refugees, you know in sevens. over the past years, we have accepted 70% of all relocated refugees in the world. , butve not been unkind this is a matter of national security. and we need to be able to say that we are going to protect ourselves from threats overseas.

and we are also going to protect ourselves as american workers from being flooded by workers in this country who are holding down wages and making it difficult for americans to be able to get employment. that is the narrative on immigration. because it is the truth. the truth of the matter is, that over the last 40 years, we have seen 35 million people come into the country, 35 million. that is a good thing or a bad thing. the reality is, over the last 20 years, wages have been growing at the slowest rate in the history of our country. 90 million people are no longer in the workforce. a record. and who are the people coming into the country, overwhelmingly wage earners. it is fine for a candidate to say that wages are too high, fine for someone to say that we

are concerned about corporate profits and what about working men and women? 90% of workers in america do not own or run their own business, they work for a living. 74% of americans do not have a college degree, what party is speaking for them? not just on the issue of immigration but economic policy. who is speaking for the american working families? if you listen to democrats, they will say, we will give you this and free that and free this. and you listen to republicans and what do we say? we will cut taxes for a high income and vigils and that will create jobs, guess what, good luck. that message is not working. why, because we never talk about workers. we talk about immigration, but do we ever talk about workers? no we do not. i do. because it is important to let

workers know that some party cares about them and their ability to rise in society. [applause] [applause] we have an opportunity, look at the last democratic debate. the last democratic debate, all they did was bigger about how bad things were, how the middle of america with halloween out, -- hollowing out. the way we connect is there a combination of policies to show americans who are struggling, hurting, not seizing the ability to rise, that republicans get it. it is about creating better jobs and better tax rates and a better regulatory environment, but is also about limiting the number of illegal immigrants coming to compete with american workers.

policy actually have a that says that we are going to send people here who came here illegally, back home, no amnesty . [applause] not because we do not like the people who are here, it is because there is a right way and a wrong way and there are consequences to american workers. for having people be here the wrong way and having too many people. it is a simple concept that most americans understand. supply and demand. and 35 million people coming into the country over the last 20 years is that almost all of whom are wage earners, is one of the reasons that you see certain candidacies taking off, because of anger and frustration that nobody is on their side.

ladies and gemma, if you are looking for someone, looking for someone who understands the national security threats and has experience to stand up, not just against hillary clinton, but against enemies in this world. if you are looking for someone who can connect with american workers and talk about the issues that are key for them, vocational training, like -- i go to talk to young audiences all the time, the first thing i say, don't go to college, go to work. go work. there are 250,000 welder jobs available right now. $50,000welder jobs pain to $100,000 a year. there is a demand for work right now, but we have leaders that looked down their noses, manual labor is beneath americans

anymore, these are good paying jobs. jobs you can go out and earn a living. then go back to school, you will live a long time, go back and get your education and rise in society. these are practical things, talking to americans struggling right now. we need a candidate that can go out and connect. --isagree -- i do not think o think we can win wisconsin, iowa, minnesota. [applause] we are not going to win with messages of the past, we will win by having a candidate go out and talk about making america the number one manufacturer in the world again, creating opportunities for people, the 74% who do not have a college degree, so they can have a piece of the american pie. you want to talk about somebody with an optimistic vision, but

more important, we need this to be successful again. give me the chance to paint to that picture of optimism, to pain that picture of the republican party, the newer publican party, not the chamber of commerce wall street republican party, but the party that cares about the 90% of people in the country that are workers that do not see either party talking about them. [applause] and finally, give me the opportunity to talk common sense about the importance of the american family. ladies and jim and, every -- totleman, every book comes the same conclusion as to why the middle of america is hollowi ng out, it is about the breakdown of the american family. [applause]

if we go out and talk common sense about how we can lift up workers in america, we can lift up families in america, talk about the important role of marriage and fatherhood, talk build aw we can healthier and stronger society for those who feel left behind in america today and do so from a position of strength. in our national security and experience,tested here you have a vision and a candidate that can change the electoral map. that is why i am here today and that is why i ask for your support. give me the opportunity to do i have done in pennsylvania. i want -- i went to congressional races, taking on democratic incumbents in a 60%

and 70% district, and i want -- reelection- iran and into reelection. he wants him but he was a vision, and who can win in states we need to win to bring this country together. you have an opportunity to do that and i hope that you do. thank you all very much and god bless you. [applause] [applause] ♪ ♪ >> wonderful, thank you very much for the opportunity to be here. am pleased to be

for, i am a candidate president of the united states. hardn, i am campaigning and i am having a really good time campaigning, i just spent four days in new hampshire and now i am pleased to be in florida. i will tell you a quick story. i was campaigning in new hampshire and i went to the andersity of new hampshire saw a football game. i got a chance to walk up and down the stands, meeting people, saying hello. everybody was very nice, they were all pleasant, they do not seem to resent the fact that i was a presidential candidate. this guy comes running down the stands and grabs me and says, i am so glad you are here, so glad to get a chance to meet you, you are governor martin o'malley, aren't you?

that really happened. ladies and gentlemen, i want to talk to you about what is on our minds, paris, france. discuss a little bit about that with you. we stand today, here in orlando, in the shadow of that horrible terrorist attack that occurred yesterday. the president of france said it was an act of war, indeed it is. and with ourrica friends and allies who stand on the ramparts of civilization, i must tell you, we are at war. i want to tell you a story for a few moments about 9-11. i want to tell you a story about 9/11, from my experience. on september 10, 2001, i was in new york city, raising money for

the republican candidate for the governor to secede me and that night i managed to fly back to richmond and i was in the governor's mansion on the morning of september 11, 2001. i was in the executive mansion, i turned on the television, i was on the second floor and i said -- i turned on the tv and the first world trade center was in flames. and i said, roxanne, come over here. fool hasn't flown into the world trade center. and we watched the second airplane fly into the tower. all of you know where you were on a day and what you are doing. that is where i was and i will tell you what i did, i was the chief executive of the state. the first thing i did come i .icked up the phone identify the emergency operations center.

i called the head of the state police and said if there is any evidence of gunplay in virginia, that the emergency center needed to be notified. i put the guard on immediate alert and i walked across capitol square to the governor's office where i learned that the second attack that day was in virginia. because the pentagon is not in washington dc, it is in virginia. friend who was on the plane that was flown into the pentagon. daysn that day and following, my job was to handle that crisis. i was a war governor. i had to deal with that issue of i spoke to the people virginia and alerted them to what we were doing. i went to washington to the pentagon and to arlington, saw

hole where the pentagon was on fire come i stood with people there, going in to make sure that the fire was out, that people had gotten out. i went to the hospitals. i was told the story about a woman who was burned, she was in the burn ward, and i asked, what did you experience? she said, i was at my desk, everything was normal and in the smoke andeye it was fire. that is the lesson for all of us. in today's modern world, you do not know what will happen. i have often been asked, what was your experience? i struggle to be able to explain , i tell them, we didn't know what was next. we do not know whether there would be another attack, we didn't know whether the

governors would be attacked, it is hard to explain. it is hard to explain how you move forward and deal with issues, just as the president of france is dealing with things on this very day. i have a confession. i tend to watch msnbc. yeah, i want to know what the enemy is thinking, i want to understand. [applause] watched rachel on and theshe was thing that struck me, she said, as it was going on in france, we just don't know what is going to happen now or next. we do not know. and i thought, that is the same experience i had as governor of virginia. i stood by those firemen, i did what was necessary to deal with the economic consequences. in other words, i was the chief

executive of a state in crisis at that -- and that is real experience. you know, i grew up in the cold war. i was the son of a meat cutter. my mother was a secretary. i studied foreign policy at the university of virginia. when my country called me when my country called me at the end of my degree, i answered the call, and and listed in the nited states army. i was taught to be a soldier at four campbell, kentucky. i was taught to be an intelligent agent in arizona. i learned at that point what the enemy was all about, their adversaries, and how to understand them. i was then sent to the defense language institute and taught

german. i was assigned to be an intelligence agent and west germany on the behalf of nato. i was there, in europe, for my country and my allies. i might mention to you that one of the other people in this race is lindsey graham, who is also a veteran. he is running an ad that he is the only veteran in the race. i have called on senator graham to withdraw that ad. we are both veterans. i went to law school on the g.i. ill. after returning to richmond, i was elected to be chief prosecutor, attorney general of virginia, governor of irginia. when i became governor, i removed the car tax, and cap my ord.

hat is what people are looking for today, someone to go into office and do what they promised to do. the 999, i was asked by department of defense to chair the commission on weapons of mass destruction because the congress wanted to know where we were. i want you to know that in 1999, 2000, and 2001, we warned specifically that an attack on the united states homeland was highly probable. and, the action was necessary to protect this country. at that time, we discussed the fact that the border was not secure. we discussed the fact that our freedoms needed to be maintained in the united states, even in a time of crisis, and that we would always keep our commitment

to freedom, liberty, safety. now, we have challenges. we have challenges that we are facing in this country, for example, the illegal immigration issue that has been brought p. i want you to know, ladies and gentlemen -- many of you may not like what i'm going to say -- we, as a republican seem to be on the attack against the latino community. we seem to be expressing attacks on the constitution when we threaten to take away birthright citizenship in this country. yesterday, donald trump proposed a federal deportation force to rip up our society, at the very time that we need unity. i will you to know, this is fascist talk, and unworthy of the great republican party of the united states. it may be acceptable to some people, but it is not acceptable to me.

abraham lincoln called on us as americans and republicans to be the better angels of our nature. i, for one, will not listen to ur worst demons. i will be wanting to know what the people of florida, and republicans of florida want. i'll be tough on drugs. i was a strong education governor. i do not believe in common core. on the gun issue, i am a member of the board of directors of the national rifle association. i believe in gun rights. i will tell you what i will do, if you, in this room, and all of your friends and colleagues in florida picked me on your ballot.

what i will do is i will change washington, d.c. to restore our place in the world. i will do that. we have to call the enemy what it is. t is radical islamism. that is the enemy of this country. we do not need to be lured into condemning all muslims among us that are loyal to the united states because they exist. we must be resolute against the doctrine that the heads people, bernstein will alive, and slaves women and children, and attacks innocent people in places like paris. we will be resolute. our president has failed. weakness is provocative. paris is only the beginning. as obama, i have watched him closely.

when he first became president, he went to egypt and apologized for this country, and send that message into the middle ast. they went to west point and said, don't worry, you are not going to be put into any kind of conflicts in the future, which i thought was a terrible message from the commander in chief. then, he went to the national prayer breakfast and said, don't orget, the christians during the crusade were just as bad. i said, at the time, that was the worst thing i had ever heard of president of the united states ever say. [applause] don't forget, the people of the left-wing of this country, they heard me say that, and they knew the i said that. this is an uncertain voice that has now led to confrontation between us, confrontation with the iranians, who now have a deal that almost ensures them a nuclear weapon in the middle ast, and finally, this

new mexico war which is rising as we saw last night. weakness is provocative in the world today. hillary clinton's leadership has failed too. hillary clinton, who is sliding away from her responsibility in the disillusionment of libya. hillary clinton who was for the keystone pipeline, and who is ow against it. hillary clinton who was operating her foundation at the same time she was secretary of date with foreign people that she was talking to. er e-mails were deleted. that led me, in this past april, to say that hillary clinton could never do her job of restoring trust with the american people. therefore, hillary clinton is disqualified from the race for president of the united tates.

[applause] if you, in this room, will start to tell the pollsters -- it all seems to be about pulling -- that you are for jim gilmore. if you will pick me, if you will elect me in your primary as president of the united states, i promise you i will bring a certain voice to this country, and i will bring real experience that has authority behind that voice. real experience. not as an insider in the congress, but as somebody who actually run a state, and has real experiences as a veteran, and real experience in foreign policy the other candidates simply do not have. i will take the lid off the defense budget, and we will begin to restore america's military strength.

e will rebuild our navy, which keeps the ceilings open and protects us here and we will rebuild the army which has been so unfitted because of the wars we have had to do overseas. we will add another combat brigade to the united states marines. ladies and gentlemen, we will stand with our allies, and restore america's position in the world. [applause] now is the time, the critical time, after the critical experience we have seen last night. now is the time for certain eadership. america must sound a certain trumpet at this critical moment when so much is at stake across the world. you have to have a president who will speak for the righteousness

of our nation. and, talk to people across the world about the justification of the justice of america. i did that when i was a simple soldier in europe as an intelligence agent there talking to our german allies. i spoke of our country. i never felt like i was an occupier when i was serving overseas for this country. i felt that i was a soldier standing on the ramparts of liberty. that is where we all are. assure you. we are, believe me, an exceptional nation. i've seen countries all across his world. i visited 18 countries. i visited afghanistan, israel, croatia. i lived in europe on behalf of our country. i know the world. and i know this. the united states of america is not only the exceptional nation of the world, it is understood

o be such. we have no reason to apologize for the justice and righteousness of the american people. [applause] so, what i say to you now is in the face of what we saw last night, and what we have seen in the past, this is a crucial time. it is no time to put an experienced amateurs in the white house. promise you that. in the meanwhile, with american leadership, the 21st century is not destined to to send into savagery or barbarism. it is not destined to do hat. with american leadership and american exceptionalism, we will lead the way for century into a time of liberty, decency, and an lignment -- enlightenment.

-- and advancement. if you choose me to be a president, i will provide that leadership. i'm asking for your vote. thank you very much for the chance to be here today. [applause] > thank you. mr. jindal: thank you all very, very much.

thank you. thank you all for that very warm welcome. thank you very much. what an honor to be here with you tonight, today, this morning. this is the most important election of our lifetimes. but even before i start, i want to talk about one thing before i even get to my remarks. i want to talk about something that happened this week. i just feel the need -- i want to talk to about donald trump's nsane comments about dr. carson. look, i am all for vigorous debate. those of you that watch the debate know that i went after some of my fellow republicans for being big government, big spending republicans. but when we have a republican talking about -- it doesn't even matter if he is talking about another republican, we have a candidate talking about somebody lse, and he manages to use the words "child molester." i thought at first maybe this was a "saturday night live" sketch. then i realized he was serious

and he gets mad at the voters of iowa. there is a line we should not cross. [applause] you may like dr. carson, you may not like dr. carson. you may be thinking about voting for him, you may not vote for him. look, i hope you vote for me, quite honestly. but whatever you think about dr. carson, there is a point at which we have to say enough is nough. we will not bear false witness gainst each other. and that is where we need to draw this line. now, speaking about these days, the media loves to say who is up, who is down. look, i will leave it to you to decide who one, -- won, who lost those debates.

i want to talk about this for a few minutes. one of the things that is losing is the first amendment to the onstitution. you know what i mean by that? let me give you two examples. look at what is happening on the campus of the university of missouri. i don't pretend to know all the details, and i am against racism in any shape, form, size, instanced, but let's look at the political correctness that has aken shape at this university. i feel bad for the students. i thought universities were supposed to be places where they were taught competing ideas. instead the students are now being taught they should be protected from any kind of ideas hey disagree with.

these are going to be the future leaders. can you imagine them sitting across the table at -- negotiating with the chinese or the iranians? are they going to demand safe zones? a they going to demand certain words not be used in most discussions? we sought in new hampshire, they were told to get use the word "american." that is politically -- that political he and correct -- politically incorrect nonsense has to stop. [applause] president obama has worked overtime to try and teach us that we are all victims. that is not the american way. our kids have to learn how to stand up for themselves. they have to learn about a robust debate of ideas. if they disagree, they should have to debate and defend their ideas. where do they learn how the will world -- the real world works? we are losing not only our

freedom of speech rights, but we are losing our first amendment religious rights as well. you've got to the left now try to take god out of the public square. you have a principal up in northwest louisiana, the aclu went after them for simply saying, "god bless you," to some parents. they are being told they can't follow their conscience. they have to choose between operating their businesses or ollowing their conscience when it comes to traditional marriage. enough is enough. there is no freedom of speech without our religious liberty rights. let's say this slowly so even hillary clinton can understand this. the united states of america did not create religious liberty. religious liberty created the united states of america. cheers and applause]

these on the left need to understand they don't have a right not to be offended. they do have the right to the same freedoms that you and i work for ourselves. the quicker off they learn that, the better off they will be and the better america will be. i came to talk to about why this is such an important election. i have asked audiences -- i have been all over the country campaigning -- i asked people what you think is the worst thing president obama has done o our country? the best answer i have gotten is, he took the oath of office s president. but if you really try to answer hat question, we can spend all morning talking about the $18 trillion of debt, about the epa trying to regulate the water in our backyards, about planned parenthood selling baby parts across this country, record low participation rate in the workforce, a foreign policy where we want stand with israel,

and a truce with iran, which makes no sense to me at all. but one of the worst things this president is trying to do, he is trying to change the very idea of america. every time you listen to him speak, it is all about redistribution, taxes, borrowing. the american dream is not to have the government take care of you. my parents came here almost 45 years ago in search of freedom and opportunity. back then, they had never been on a plane before. they had never visited america before. they didn't even know anybody who had been to louisiana. -- to come back and tell them whats the like. and they came anyway. my kids don't understand this, but there was no google. you couldn't look at up back i ind then either. [laughter] my mom was pregnant with me and they left behind their friends,

their parents, their families. they came for the idea of freedom and opportunity. they were coming for the american dream. my mom, she went to school at lsu. my dad, he came here to work. got his first job literally calling companies out of the ellow pages. when i was born a few months later, i was what you would politely call a pre-existing condition. [laughter] my parents' insurance didn't cover me. he went to that doctor at a woman's hospital. no government forms, no insurance. he simply said to that doctor, i want to send you a check every month until i pay this bill in full. [applause] that is how we used to do things in america. i don't know how that would work today. i asked my dad, how do you pay for a baby on layaway?

[laughter] if you skip a payment, do they take the baby back? he said you were such a bad little baby we would have skipped a payment on purpose just to send you back. no, you are paid for, don't worry about it. i tell you that because my parents came here and chased the american dream. they have lived the american team. and this is what this election is really about. i we going to fight for the american dream for ourselves and our children, or are we going to let this country go down the path of socialism? that is why this is the most important election of our lifetimes. i want to talk to you about how my parents came here. when they came to this country, they came to this country legally. cheers and applause] let's talk about immigration. a smart immigration policy makes our country stronger. a dumb immigration policy makes our country weaker. and today we have got a dumb

mmigration policy. how do we fix it? e don't need a comprehensive approach, we don't need a thousand page bill, the first thing we need to do is we need to secure our border once and for all. we need to stop talking about it. we can get this done in six months if we were serious about t. it wouldn't be perfect, but we can get it done in six months. the reality is we know why the left doesn't want to do it, but there are also a lot of republicans in d.c. who don't want to do it. they want groups who want open borders and common core, and they threaten these republicans, saying if you don't do what we nt, we went support your campaigns. we also have to put an end to sanctuary cities.

[cheers and applause] cheers and applause] i do know -- i know congress wants to defund them. that doesn't go far enough. i have a package that would say to these mayors and councilman, if you want to break the federal law, we will hold you criminally responsible. hold them as accessories to these crimes committed by people who shouldn't be here in the first place. if you locked up if you mayors, i bet you wouldn't have sanctuary cities anymore in america. generations of great strength of america has been a melting pot. the left says that is politically incorrect. that is xenophobia can culturally arrogant.

instead we should be the salad bowl. that is the dumbest thing i've heard in a long time. plus, we don't make anybody come here. if somebody doesn't want to be an american, don't come to america. cheers and applause] and don't use our freedoms to undermine the same freedoms we give to everybody. i'm tired of this divider in chief in the white house. folks, we are not african, we are not asian-americans, we are not rich or poor americans, we are all americans united as one. cheers and applause]

let's be honest, this is what a smart immigration policy looks like. if you want to come to america,, legally. learn english, adopt our values. when you get here, roll up your sleeves and get to work. that is what a smart policy looks like. i have said something about immigration a couple months ago that made hillary clinton upset. so i have decided to say it again and again as often as i can. this is what i said, a very important point. immigration -- with immigration, we must insist on assimilation and immigration. let's be honest, assimilation without integration is not immigration. that is an invasion.

that is what we see happening in europe. e must not let that happen here. you've got -- you've got second, third generation immigrants in europe that don't consider themselves parts of that country or societies or values. folks, we must not let that happen here. this melting pot has been a great strength of america for a long time. i want to talk about these awful, awful tragic events that happened in paris yesterday. we are all aware of the awful massacre, and we need to say prayers. the families that have been brutally victimized by these terrorists. you may have seen that this wasn't just an attack on france or paris, this is an attack on freedom and free people everywhere. including right here at ome. you may have seen the french president declared a national state of emergency and close to their borders.

[applause] folks, it is time for us here in america to secure our borders and to keep our people safe as well from these radical people -- evil terrorists. cheers and applause] it is time for us to be honest about the enemy that we face. how can we defeat this enemy when we have a president who won't even be honest about the threat we face? we need a president with more honesty to tell us, look, we don't need political correctness. we don't need a president apologizing. we need a president who will say this: islam has a problem. radical islam. it is not enough to condemn generic acts of violence. they must make it clear and name these individuals by name and say that they are not martyrs. if you kill in the name of islam, you are not a martyr.

you are not going to enjoy a reward in the afterlife, but rather you are going straight to ell, where you belong. cheers and applause] but today, we have a foreign policy were our friends don't trust us, our enemies don't fear nd respect us. illary clinton, the only thing she has ever run is this president's failed foreign policy. the president went to the pentagon several weeks ago and said we can't win this conflict with the guns. we will have to change hearts and minds. folks, this is an evil comic evil enemy. -- evil, evil enemy. mr. president, sometimes it does take guns. and sometimes you've got to kill evil terrorists before they come ere and kill us first.

ou know, i have talked a lot about the challenges facing our country, both domestic and abroad. i am here to tell you that i still believe our best days are ahead of us. i still believe we are blessed to live in the greatest country in the history of the world. you know, it is not inevitable. our 40th president ronald reagan reminded us that we lived in that shining city on the hill. but he reminded us that any generation -- every generation of americans must renew for you reminded us that every generation of americans must renew for themselves those principles of freedom. previous generations spilled blood and chatted a cash and tragedy to give us the freedom we have inherited. the hour is late but not too late for america. i wanted to be known that when that day comes, we did everything possible to save the

idea of america will stop is a what you is about whether we america the idea of slip away. [applause] the idea of america has done more to fight for freedom and defenseless than any other civilization in the history of the world. [applause] .> shame on those in d.c. giving away the idea of america. shame on us if we let them do it. as long as i have breath in my body, i will fight to save the idea of america but i cannot do it alone. i'm here to ask you to join a cause. my dad taught me americans can do anything. then and i believe

it now. i think you believe that as well. [applause] >> i think you have been frustrated these seven years that you also believe our best days are ahead of us and you want to believe again we are blessed to be in the greatest country in the history of the world. but a lifelong conservative i'm actually angrier at the republicans this evening then i am at the democrats this evening. [applause] >> at least the democrats are honest. us he's aders tells socialist. the republicans tell you one thing and they get elected and do another. they told us give them the majority. and given them obamacare, amnesty. volunteered, donated, got the majority. what happened? nothing. they've are ready given up on defund planned

parenthood and stop the iran deal. [applause] thistold you i couldn't do without your help. i'm here to ask you to believe again. i know with your help and with god's grace, we will and we can be victorious. it's time to take our country --k from the spectral special interest, time to stand up and rescue the idea of the american dream, time to send a message that we will not allow iran to be a nuclear power, time to send a message to our children. leave for them the same freedom and opportunity are parents left for us that brought my parents here 40 years ago.

it's time to believe again in the idea of america. god bless you and thank you very, very much for coming out today. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ mr. paul: thank you. thank you. ♪ thank you. [applause] i just came down from new hampshire, and i'm reading a book about hamilton and jefferson. they have a quote from hamilton he says, "the national debt is a public blessing." [laughter] thomas jefferson sort of response that really it is more of a curse than a blessing. we still have some of the same discussion going on in the republican party and in our country.

we have a discussion, we have hamiltonian's and we have jeffersonians still in our party. i think the debt is a great threat. [applause] it won't surprise you that some disagree, and some think that, well, it doesn't matter where we -- what we borrow the money for, but if we spend it on advancing the military, it is fine. i guess the problem i have is that if you are going to spend $1 trillion of new money that is going to be added to the debt, does that make us stronger or weaker? >> weaker. mr. paul: admiral mullen, career officer, said that he thinks the biggest threat to our national

security is our debt, and i agree with him. i don't think we project strength from brink of secord. i think the further we get into debt, the further danger there is that we might destroy the currency, we might destroy the country. so this is a debate we are going to have paid now we have staring us in the face this terrible tragedy in paris. we think to ourselves, what are we going to do, how are we going to defend our country, how will we be safe? one of the things i think we have to learn and one of the lessons we should learn from the tragedy in paris is that we have to be very careful and very cautious, extraordinarily cautious, about who comes to visit, immigrants here, and who studies here. [cheering] [applause] once upon a time after 9/11, we had a program that had extra scrutiny for those are wanted to visit us. i am all for that. in fact, i tried to be instituted this. president obama canceled it. the one thing president obama came up with was canceling a program of those who scrutinize

those who come to visit us. but i try to reintroduce this. you will recall there was an immigration bill, rubio and schumer. so i put forward an amendment called trust but verify, because the biggest problem to all types of immigration reform is people say, oh, we are going to secure the border, and it never comes. we leave it up to the president, if you republican presidents, and it never comes. so i had an amendment that said, you know what, we will check up on the president. we will have a check and a balance. and each year, congress will vote on whether or not the border is secure. i also put in this amendment, the increased scrutiny for those want to come here as students or visiting or immigrating. particularly from about 25 countries -- you can guess which ones. the thing is that those who came and attacked us on 9/11, they were here on student visas, they overstayed their visas, we didn't know they were here.

two of them were on the watch list. the cia knew they were in san diego, but the fbi didn't for some reason. so we let -- we let our guard down. but when i introduced my amendment to the immigration bill, unfortunately i got some opposition. your senator, in fact, opposed me on this. i tried to pass something that i think was a conservative proposition to the immigration bill that would've had more scrutiny for refugee, for visitors, for students. one of the reasons i became very concerned about this is that i live in a little town in kentucky, in bowling green, and we had two people come from iraq, refugees -- still try to figure out how you have people seeking political asylum when we won the war -- [laughter] but they came to bowling green

and then decided to buy surface-to-air missiles to attack us. we caught them, fortunately, it i'm asking the question: who in the hell is in charge of scrutinizing these people? [applause] so my an amendment would have required fingerprinting, background checks, and extensive scrutiny of those who are coming to visit us. [applause] i thought this would get conservative support because i think we do need to know who is coming and who is going across our border. i thought it would have made the immigration bill much stronger. but here is what happened, and this is not widely known, but there was a deal made between marco rubio and chuck schumer, somewhat of a seagull deal -- secret to deal, but also somewhat well-known now. they agreed to block all amendments from conservatives. so what you wound up with was a bill that no conservative could support. but to me, it is also about national security.

because when we look at our border, you can't have a wide open border. you do have to have control of your border if you are going to be a nation. [applause] some will say, it doesn't matter, we don't like you because you want to spend $1 trillion more than what we are spending. guess what? we already spend over $600 billion on the military, including another $40 billion on homeland security. what i'm saying is let's spend it wisely, but let's don't add to the debt to do this because the debt is dragging us down. in fact, there is a secret -- [applause] there is sort of an unholy alliance going on in washington, and this is really -- rush limbaugh put it while the other

day, he said republicans are losing their high moral ground. we can no longer blame it on the democrats because, guess what, both parties are now the problem. we raised the debt ceiling -- [applause] we raised the debt ceiling, and -- ceiling an unspecified amount. mr. president, you can raise it as much as you want until march 2017. so i kept him awake until 3:00 in the morning, filibustering against it. [cheering] [applause] i can tell you they were less than happy with me, and i heard a few words that i cannot reveal on the national stage as they walked by my desk. there were quite a few epithets being hurled at me because they were unhappy at being there at 3:00 in the morning. i said, look, the country is worth us having a debate over this. [applause] and i told them, i said, you go outside the beltway -- this was at 2:00 in the morning -- i said, you drive outside the beltway and you stop at the

first grocery store, you stop at the first convenience store gas station, and you introduce yourself to the first person you meet and you ask them, is it a good idea to raise the debt ceiling and raise the spending at the same time? it is like giving the college kid who has $2000 of debt on their credit card, giving them more credit. who does that? we need to reform our spending. and then what they will tell you, here is what you get from the establishment. the establishment says, oh, well, we don't have the votes and we will have to have a republican president. when i was elected in 2010, there was this big tea party tidal wave. we came in, but all we took was the house. we didn't take the senate, but we had a debt ceiling vote. we had a debt ceiling vote, and the president said, i will not negotiate with a gun to my head.

and then he promptly negotiated. and we got what was called the sequester. the sequester has been missed described by most in the media. it was not a cut in spending, but a slowdown in the rate of both of spending. the government was still growing, but at a slower rate and it was at least something positive. we got that with only one republican house. now we have a republican house, a republican senate, and we've got squat. we went the wrong direction. [cheering] [applause] what has happened up there is many of the members have become like furniture. all right? in your shop. status quo. the only way you will ever fix it is we need term limits for everybody. [cheering] [applause] people ask me, they say, what is the worst thing the president has done? i say, how long do you have? [laughter]

but really what i think it all is, it is not just obamacare, the banking regulations, if i'm going to sum it all up in one statement i would say it is the collapse of the separation of powers. [applause] you remember what he said? he said, i've got my pen and i forgot my phone, and by golly, he is going to do what he wants. time and time again. the separation of powers was one of the most important things that our founders gave to us. in fact, madison put it this way, he said we would have code equal branches of government, they would check and balance each other, and we would pit

ambition against ambition. ambition of congress to want more power would be pitted against the president who wanted more power, and they would check and balance each other. but if i had to give you an estimate of the way washington works now, i would say the president has 1000 fold more power than congress. why? because you have a congress that rules over, plays dead, and has become an inconsequential. [cheering] [applause] we have the power to control spending right now. spending expires at the end of the year. automatically, it is in the law. so what happens when spending expires? let it all expire until the democrats they've got to restart it. do you know what it would take? how many people would rather defund planned parenthood? [cheering] [applause] planned parenthood goes away if we let it expire. and then to restart it, if the other side wants to refund

planned parenthood or any of a thousand waste will programs, they would have to have a majority in the house and 60 votes in the senate. see, they are not being honest with you. they are saying we can't defund everything -- anything because we can get 60 votes. it all expires automatically if we will let the spending expire, and a second later we can restart it. what needs to be restarted. tell the democrats they need 60 votes to fund planned parenthood. [applause] [cheering] [applause] when we look at the problems that we face, and we look at who we are going to choose as our next commander in chief, i am reminded of what i think is probably the worst candle of the last eight years, and that is benghazi. it isn't the movie, it isn't the spin afterwards. politicians are almost uniformly disco -- dishonest. but what gets me about benghazi more than anything else is that time after time, maybe a dozen

times, hillary clinton was asked for more security and it was denied. in the spring of that year, she began sending people home. she began telling our troops over there not to wear their boots because we were defending the freedom fighters in libya. told them not to care their weapons because guns are dangerous and we don't want to -- we don't want to show the freedom fighters that we think we need guns. she sent home a special forces team of six guys in february. she sent home another special forces team in march. in april, they requested the use of a plane. denied. do you remember on the night of

attack -- the attack what happened? there was no plane. our guys had to have too big for the use of a libyan plane. we had to beg them to fly our own damn plane. the day she turns down the plane, three days later she approves $100,000 for an electrical charging station for the chevy volt for our vienna embassy. it seems they were greening of the embassy. believe it or not, this is what is going on. maybe we don't need to green up all this stuff. [applause] [cheering] [applause] if you've got to wave -- weigh your defense of ben ghazi -- benghazi versus but charging station for your embassy, my goodness. i began listing the things she spent the money on. the summer before our ambassador was killed, they spent $700,000 on the landscaping for the brussels embassy. they spent $100,000 sending three comedians to india on the

make chai, not war tour. they spent $500,000 and facebook ads. it seems they don't have enough friends, so they want you to like them. they spent $5 million on crystal barware and glassware for the embassies, but didn't have enough money to defend them in benghazi. the ambassador is standing -- sending plea after plea. now he is sending cables from himself to hillary clinton. when she came into my committee and said, you know, she didn't know anything about this. did you read the cables, that is what i asked her, did you read the cables from the ambassador? and she said no and asked all huffy like she was too busy to

read them. do you know what i tell her? by her in action, she should forever be precluded from being commander-in-chief. [cheering] [applause] thank you. some people will ask, how are we going to have money to defend ourselves if you are not willing to go into debt for it? first, we spent $600 billion, more than the next 10 countries combined. there is a lot of money. quit wasting it. i will give you an area we might not want to spend more money. i say spend not one penny for countries who are persecuting christians around the world. [cheering] [applause] you would think that would pass, right? i introduced an amendment in the

foreign relations committee that says no money for any country that persecute christians. any country that has a death penalty for criticizing a state religion. you know what state religion we are talking about here. the vote was 18-2 against me. i took all that money and put it into the fence so we can protect ourselves. and some people say, surely no one is putting christians to death. there are not many christians left in pakistan. she went to draw water from the well, and they began starting her and beating her. she was bleeding and on her knees, crying out for help. she was a christian and a muslim

visio -- village. finally, the police arrive and she thinks she has been saved. only to be arrested. she has been on death row in pakistan for five years. and yet we continue to give billions of dollars of our money -- in fact, we don't even have that money. we bow to that money from china to send it to pakistan. there is so much within our government that we could save money with and put to our defense without saying we are going to spend $1 trillion we have -- we don't have by borrowing it. we still have a debate in our party between the hamiltonians and the jeffersonians. those who believe in limited government, balanced budget, who believe in the safety of the country only comes when you spend what comes in and you don't go further into debt. this debate goes on. this is a debate i think our party needs to have. it could be done in a polite fashion, but we need to have this. can we go further into debt, or

will that harm us as a country? this is a debate we need to have. as we move forward, and we think about what we want to project to the american people and what is the message we can project that can win the country and beat hillary clinton, i think of the painter by the name of robert, and he had this message to young painters. he said, paint like a man coming over the hills singing. i think when we proclaim our message, when we proclaim our message with passion that we are going to defend the entire bill of rights, that we are going to be the party of justice, when we proclaim that message with hope and optimism, and when we proclaim that message like a man coming over the hills singing, then we are going to be the dominant party. we are going to rock 'n roll to victory. and that is what i want to be a part of. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. [applause] ♪

>> today are road to the white house continues with a democratic debate. we will year from martin o'malley, hillary clinton, and bernie sanders.

the debate is cosponsored by tv, des moines. you can see it on c-span. we continue with republican presidential candidate speeches from the second day of the florida republican sunshine summit. we will hear from governor's chris christie and john kasich, as well as carly fiorina. chris christie: thank you for having me here today. i was named the attorney for new jersey by president bush.

the next day my wife left our home in 6:00 in the morning, went to the train station. a trip that would eventually bring her to the world trade center. she walked through it 7:30 this morning -- that morning to her office. it was september 11, 2001. as ik the dale from work was about to start a new job. i brought my children to school. on a beautiful, cloudless day in the state where i was born and raised. when i got home, the first plane had hit the first building and i called my wife. she told me there was nothing to worry about. she could see the fire from out her window. they told her it was a small commuter plane. and all would be fine. while we were on the phone discussing what our plans were for the day and her making sure that i remembered to pick up the children from school, the second

plane hit the second building. her bosses told her she had to evacuate to the basement of her building immediately and for the next five and a half hours, i didn't hear from her. at that time, we had three children, an 8-year-old son, a 5-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son. and as the hours passed and the buildings fell and the death toll mounted and i didn't hear from my wife, i knew two things. one, that when my children came home from school, the first thing they were going to ask me is where's mom? and the second thing i thought about was what would my life be like without my best friend and as a single parent of three? fortunately for me and for our children, mary came out alive. but that night, one of our friends from our parish who she

had got an job for after he had become unemployed was not home. the job she had gotten him was in the world trade center. we went and sat with his wife and he replicated what was going -- and she replicated what was going on all throughout our region that night. she sat and said to us i'm sure frank is fine. i'm sure he's just in the hospital somewhere. i'm sure i'm going to hear from him soon. of course, he never came home. and days later, we went to his funeral and the parish, jim, is now named in his honor. you see, for me, being seven years as the u.s. attorney in new jersey immediately after september 11, terrorism is not theoretical. it's not something that i discuss in the basement of the capital in the subcommittee meeting. i went to the funerals.

i saw the carnage. and it was my job in the days, weeks, months, and years after that to make sure that it never happened again. i'm honored to have had that job. and honored to be one of the folks that contributed to making sure in the next seven years, it didn't happen again. and i fear as a nation that we've begun to lose our focus, lose our focus on how we felt in the days after september 11, how fearful we were, how at risk we felt. we took for granted the safety and security that was provided by us, to us by a government that understood its first and most important job, was to provide for the safety and the security of the american people. so i originally thought what i was thinking about this yesterday and coming to speak to all of you that i would do what i normally do. i would get a handheld microphone. i would wander around the stage, i would talk to you about my

vision for america's future and its economy, education, job, and our national security. tell a few jokes and have a good time with you. but i thought last night as i watched the television and the unfolding events that that was not the appropriate speech for someone who's asking you to be the leader of our country to give on a day like today. and so i took to my thoughts and unusually for me, i put them down on paper. so i hope you forgive me because i think the time is too serious and the moment is too grave to be giving off some canned stump speeches i've been giving in iowa and new hampshire. i want to speak to you from my heart for the last 24 hours that i have seen. we have seen evil visited upon innocent people once again. france is in shock. still coming to grips with the

death of their countrymen. we stand with them and we pray for them in this time of national mourning. but our outrage must turn into action and resolve. [applause] now, isis warned us that they could commit unspeakable carnage and now they have. for decades now, we have seen that wherever islamist, jihaddists and their sympathizers go, they leave a hideous and unfathomable trail of despair and destruction. [applause] lebanon and kenya, tanzania and london, mumbai and madrid, baghdad, manhattan, and washington, d.c., shanksville, pennsylvania, and fort hood. and now for the second time the one year, paris. we must never allow this cult of evil to take hold in our country or to live amongst us.

it is the antithesis of what it means to be a free american. [applause] on a day like this, we all see the desperate need for strong leadership. but what does it mean to be a strong president? see, this government was designed and built to protect american interests and if we don't get that right, we can't truly be strong. always upholding and respecting our constitutional principles , which starts with our sovereignty and our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. us, happinessgs is not possible. of course, that means law and order must be respected. and it must be respected to ensure that our way of life

continues. today, we see special interests working to support our world law at our border, with a lack of drug enforcement and with executive action by the a lawless president of the united states. [applause] rest assured as president, when i take my hand off the bible, were not just words that i repeat from the chief justice. my actions will show you that i will always faithfully execute the laws of the united states, not pick and choose the ones i like and ignore the ones i don't. and i certainly won't treat the white house as mini congress or do enrons around the legislative branch. my presidency will never look like a lawless imperial presidency like the one we have right now. [applause] whether the focus is jobs or whether it's trade, whether it's immigration or whether it's

national security, our policies must be based on a clear understanding of how the world really works. not the naive assumptions of folks uninformed by experience or by history. even when the right policy is not politically correct or even when the right policy is not popular with the big political donors, a strong person, i, will have the fort attitude to follow -- i will have the fortitude to follow through and do the right thing for the people who i really work for, which are the people of the united states of america. [applause] i can guarantee now you this. i won't wake up every morning seeking the approval and the applause of the "new york times" editorial page or the harvard faculty and i won't get it anyway. [laughter] my sole focus if you give me the chance to be your president will be to do the people's will. by removing government barriers to prosperity, by enforcing our laws, by protecting our home

things,d by doing those preserving our freedom. [applause] now, for the past 15 years, there have been some really good people in washington who have been trying to do the right things. but unfortunately for many of them, they didn't understand what the world was really like. but with my experience as a federal prosecutor, as a governor of a state that i " andgly called "unruly, through my life experience as a husband and a father and a son and a brother, i understand that my sacred obligation as president will be protecting the american interests. because if we don't care for ourselves, no one else will. [applause] there are all too many people in the global business that are not really interested in america as a nation state anymore. they're interested in building a different global order that will protect their economic interests, their philosophical

interests, not in building a strong america that will protect the american interests. now, i will not be governed by the public opinion polls. i will not be governed by the united nations and you can bet i won't be governed by the washington elites. [applause] see the way i see this is this , nation is our home. this is where our children are born. this is where our grandparents are buried. this must be our top priority. it means more than just paying lip service to securing our borders. it means more than just paying lip service to this issue of immigration. i come at it from a law and order perspective. our borders must be sealed. our laws must be enforced, and if we did it, we wouldn't have 12 million people here illegally right now. and worse yet or an afternoon

like this afternoon, we wouldn't be worried about isis slipping across our borders to perform unspeakable acts of violence on the american people. [applause] now, we want our homes be safe and comfortable. we want our homes to be an environment where our families reach their full potential. and this is what we have to have. for our homeland, for our country. the u.s. government must be returned to being on your side, not working against your interests. today, that's just not the case. ronald reagan said it best. we are the drivers of this interest, not the passengers. i want to drive in the american interest, not of the interest of the elite. that try to make that is global village. [applause] national security is not a privilege or an option. national security is a fundamental right that the american president must

understand is his first and most important priority. some people think that any trade deal negotiated by these global economic interests is something that we must sign on to. let's be clear. i disagree. some people believe that borders are outdated, that they don't believe in the nation state anymore. they really believe in a post-american world, even an anti-american mindset. most of us utterly reject that. we recoil from it, and we must continue to as a people. [applause] we have to put the interest of average americans off the -- off of the back burner and on to the front burner and we have to stop , stop worrying about, first and foremost, what others think. but we must first and foremost put the interests of our neighbors, our friends, our children, and our grandchildren

, and the american president must go into the oval office of 2017 with the front of their mind and i pledge you, that is at the front of mine. [applause] i really do believe that washington, if properly -- if properly reformed and properly led can , and will serve the interests of the people. and i'll tolerate nothing less as president of the united states. i've been through the fire of the most liberal, aggressive media market in america in new york city. i've been through the fire of the critics in my state, outside of my state who believe that i'm too blunt and too outspoken and too direct. let me tell you what the world is right now. a blunt and outspoken president of the united states will who lead the world again. [applause] political season, let's remember something.

exciting and attractive, until you need experience. experience in taming the bureaucracy. facing downn adversaries. experience in formulating policies that can actually work and serve the people. remember something, this president was new in 2008. and look at what his legacy of inexperience has brought for our country. a record number of people out of the workforce. a record number of people on disability. crushing smallis businesses, hiking your premiums , and put forward the biggest lie of the first term. if you like your doctor, you can keep him. if you like your insurance plan you can keep them. , they were all lies and his inexperience and his philosophies have brought those lies on the american people.

[applause] his inexperience is more than doubled the national debt. his inexperience has increased, not decreased racial tensions in , this country. and the bumbling inexperienced foreign policy has put america at risk again like it has not been since that day in september of 2001. just think of the things that this president had said in the past few years. he claims that our borders were more secure than they've ever been. he claimed that africa and the middle east would be safer than it's ever been. he told us al qaeda was on the run. he called isis the jv. and just hours yesterday, before they struck in paris, he told "abc news" that his strategy was containing isis. all of these statements were a lie. he sees the world as he likes to see it, as fantasy. i see the world as it really is

, and it's time to have a president who sees the world that it really is, not how he wishes it would be. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, every candidate for president, every time they run likes to say that this is the most important election in our lifetime. the reason, of course, we say it, is because it's the most important election to us in our lifetime because we're running. but let me tell you this. we cannot afford to elect another president who sees america as barack obama sees america. we cannot afford to elect another president without the reckless inexperience and values -- without the requisite experience and values to effectively govern. this is not a job for on the job training, everybody. we need someone who's made decisions, who stuck by those decisions and who understands the ramifications not only of action, but of inaction. america is a country of action. it has become a country of

reactive inaction. when i'm president of the united states america will be a nation , of action again and action in , the interest of one goal. protecting the safety, security, and freedom of the american people. [applause] it is those truths and those values that are enshrined in our declaration of independence and our constitution. at times such as this, those are the truths that should be self-evident to all of us. now, there are many in this room who are angry. angry about the way governments have conducted themselves. you have every right to be. and then you take that anger and you want to use your vote as a chance to send a message about that anger. these times are too dire for that luxury.

and the threats we are facing are too great for that active -- for that act of vanity. i want you to ask yourself a few questions as you consider your vote in 2016. who among us is really prepared? based on their experience and their personality to protect the homeland? who among us has truly been tested by challenges that will prepare them for the challenges that will greet them when they enter the oval office for the first time? who among us is the best person to aggressively prosecute the case against hillary clinton and restore the safety and security of the united states of america? the issues that you demand be addressed in this next election. i want to tell you something. and it comes from the heart. i'm tested. i'm ready. and i know that i can accomplish these things, not because i

have thought of them, but because i've already done them as a prosecutor and as governor. and i would be honored, truly honored, to have your vote and have the opportunity to restore american strength, security, and greatness -- both at home and around the world. please go home tonight, turn on your televisions and watch the news. the world is desperate for a strong, secure, smart and tested american president. america needs to assert itself again on the world stage. but we have to start at home. i want your support and your vote, because i want to restore american's strength and greatness for every american that deserves it. we need a president who's ready to serve, and i am ready to serve you. thank you very much. [cheers and applause]

♪ governor kasich: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. today is a much different day. it's a somber day. it's a tough day. and for me, it's really not a day of politics or promoting a candidacy. i wouldn't be comfortable with that today. but i believe there are some things that must be said. what we saw last night, what we observed on 9/11, what we observed at fort hood, what we witnessed at chattanooga, and what we saw with the murderers

who invaded charlie hebdoe and -- charlie hebdo. night, it was not just one isolated small group, and not just an attack that we have seen of just a lone wolf. ladies and gentlemen, we need to understand that these attacks really represent an attack on western civilization. [applause] represent -- the world has to recognize that this is an effort not just an attack on the theory of western civilization.

this is an attack on our way of life. the way of life of everyone who celebrates the western ethic. i don't know that this is a time for political criticism or the blame game. but i must say that we as a nation, the united states of america, has not shown leadership. we just have not shown leadership. we've had an unwillingness, an unwillingness to lead. one administration official suggested that the united states should lead from behind. if the united states of america were to continue to lead from behind, we will leave the world

a much more dangerous place. today, nato should invoke article v of our nato agreement, which basically says that an attack on an ally is an attack on us and an attack on all of the western world. [applause] we, as americans, must assert leadership and we need to stand shoulder to shoulder with france and the french people. this is a moment to bring us together. the president of the united states must travel to europe and the president can convene

meetings with our allies to work on critical, critical intelligence operations. ladies and gentlemen, it's only through effective intelligence that we can begin to learn of threats. and there's no doubt in my mind that some of our intelligence cooperation has thwarted attackers that we've not even heard of. but i can also suggest to you that the erosion and the trust that must be put together between us and our friends in the nato alliance and no doubt in my mind has created holes in our ability to work together and protect ourselves. critical work on intelligence matters is essential and the president of the united states should be convening our friends and our allies to develop plans

for joint military action to destroy isis. to destroy isis. [applause] you know, our thoughts and our prayers go to the people of france. but that's not enough. action is required. time is of the essence. negotiation, ambivalence or delay -- are not acceptable. [applause] negotiation, ambivalence, or delay are not acceptable. one more time, i must say not just to those in this hall, but across this country and across this globe, our way of life. for my precious twin dwhutes -- for my precious twin

daughters who will be 16 in january, a precious way of life is at risk. immediately, we should enforce the no-fly zone in syria. our arab allies and friends must provide sanctuary. our arab allies and friends must provide sanctuary for those displaced by war. [applause] and ladies and gentlemen, there's no doubt that we can win the battle with bullets and weapons. and we must engage it now. but united states is the leader of the western ethics and our way of life. a western ethic that represents respect for human rights, respect for women. the women in this crowd today are unacceptable to our enemies. and respect for

self-determination. we must gather those who understand that at this critical moment in history, we need to come together, not just to win on the battlefield, but we need to win the war of ideas. destroying one group does not allow us to win the battle of ideas. we must destroy this group today, but then engage the battle of ideas. people across this globe even -- this globe, even those who live in confused lives and trying to determine how to act need to understand what we believe. we believe in a life. that means we must live a life greater than ourselves. life is not just about me.

life is about something greater than who we are. we should be a center of justice. a center of healing, each and every one of us. and to know that all lives matter, that what we do makes a difference. and what we know, in parts of western world and in many parts of the rest of the world, people get confused about their purpose. when people get confused about whether their life matters, whether they're poor or whether they're rich but when they believe that they don't matter on this globe, it is possible for them to turn to destructive ideology to seek to destroy those who believe that their lives make a difference in this world. ladies and gentlemen, it's only with the assertion of u.s.

leadership that will allow us to preserve a world that values these ideas, these ideas. these ideas -- the ideas that our lives matter, that we are centers of healing and justice, that we do live lives greater than ourselves in any way that we can. to spread this notion, this concept, this belief in our actions will allow us to win the battle of ideas. and to reject and destroy the real threat to humanity. today, we're in a hall. yesterday, we were in the hall. and it's politics. you know, we need to think about what this is all about for our country. our philosophy is something that we believe so strongly in, free enterprise, freedom of

individuals, government is the last resort, not as a first resort. and the notion that the united states of america and its leadership is indispensable all across this globe. to those young boys and girls being raised all across the globe that there is hope, that will is a future, that we can have progress and prosperity and peace. you see, a political party is nothing more than a vehicle to bring change. you know, a political party is really nothing more than a vehicle to make a difference. and it's just not about winning an election. ladies and gentlemen, it's not. it's about what this country's future is going to be.

we know the formulas that work. and we need to assert them in an aggressive and in a positive way. so, you know, isn't it a wonderful thing that each and every one of you has gathered here over the last couple of days. but i want you to think about it not so much from a republican point of view, but from an american point of view. that we believe that our ideas, that our philosophies will bring about a stronger america. and think about this. it's really in the hands of each one of us and each one of you to realize that you can change the world. the axis on which it spins and being involved in the process of making sure that our children and our grandchildren will understand that america is the hope of the world as our system works and we will stand and we

will fight for it on the battlefield and in the battlefield of ideas and we will win. that is what matters so much to us. [applause] you know, normally, i'm going to be fighting the clock. i have plenty of time left to speak. i don't think today is the day for long, winded remarks. the message i gave you today comes from the bottom of my heart and i hope you will reflect on it. and realize that the good lord has given each of us a set of gifts, a set of capabilities, and the working together in our families, in our neighborhoods, for through our political action that we're part of healing our country and healing the world.

we matter, and we need to stand up for our children so that they, too, will understand that they can make a difference in our lives. yes, we knew we need to rebuild our families and yes, we need rebuild our neighborhoods. and by doing all that, we'll rebuild america and help the entire world. so today, i would say god bless the united states of america and god bless the nation of france. thank you. [applause] ♪

♪ ms. fiorina: thank you so much. [laughter] thank you. [applause] ms. fiorina: thank you for that great sunshine summit welcome. you guys have a lot of passion and spirit to be here on a beautiful saturday afternoon after two days of speeches. so, thank you for that warm welcome and hanging in here through the end of the day. >> [indiscernible] ms. fiorina: [laughter] thank you. [laughter]

ms. fiorina: ladies and gentlemen, we have much to be proud of as republicans, but today, today, actually, like all of you, i am very angry. i am heartsick, and i am heartbroken at the carnage in paris. i am filled with revolution for the terrorists that carried out these brutal acts that we have seen play out on our television screen, and the murderous islamic extremism that fuels their violent hatred. i am profoundly disappointed that our own president cannot speak with the same clarity of purpose as the president aland -- president francois hollande and prime minister david cameron. [applause] ms. fiorina: mostly, though, i am angry.

i am angry that just yesterday morning, our president, against all evidence, declared isis contained, and took a victory lap. isis is not contained, mr. president. they are at our shores, and they measure their victims in body count. i am angry, really angry, that hillary clinton there's two ask -- dance to ask, what difference for americansow -- how 4 americans died in benghazi, and then tells us we have to emphasize with our enemy. mrs. clinton, when the united states does not answer a purposeful terrorist attack with a purposeful and powerful response of our own, and instead blames a video, then we invite more terrorism and more bloodshed.

[applause] ms. fiorina: like all of you, i am angry. i am angry that president obama and hillary clinton declared victory in iraq in 2011, abandoned all of our hard- to won gains for political it the -- expediency, leaving territory and too much weaponry to be gobbled up by isis. i am angry that president obama unilaterally decides that we will accept, in this nation, 100,000 syrian refugees, while his administration admits that we cannot determine their ties to terrorism. [applause] mostly, i am outraged because the murder, the mayhem, the danger, the tragedy that we see

unfolding in paris, in the middle east, around the world, and too often in our own homeland are the direct consequences of this administration's policies. you cannot lead from behind. [applause] ms. fiorina: the world is a very dangerous and a very tragic place when we do not lead. we cannot be the world's policeman, but we must be the world leader, and so -- [applause] ms. fiorina: and so, ladies and gentlemen, it is worth considering, at this pivotal point in our nations history, why only this nation can lead. our nation was founded on a very unique premise, on a visionary idea, that each individual life has promise and potential, and value. that we judge an individual by

the content of his or her character as martin luther king taught us, instead of as a member of a group. [applause] our nation -- our nation was founded on the idea that each of us has the right to fulfill our potential. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. our founders, and this was the radical part of our founding ideas, our founders said that this right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness comes from god and cannot be taken away by man or government. [applause] ms. fiorina: our constitution was written as much to curry of the abuse of power as to protect our individual rights.

we are not a perfect nation. we have worked hard to build a more perfect union. we are an exceptional nation. [applause] ms. fiorina: despite all of our imperfections and struggles, it is nevertheless true, that in havenation more things been more possible for more people regardless of circumstances than anywhere else on earth. we are thetrue that only nation, in the history of military, with superiority who uses that power not to conquer territory or subjugate others, but to liberate and uplift people. to comfort people all over the world. [applause]

ms. fiorina: this, mr. president, is why we are an exceptional nation. because we are exceptional, we must lead. [applause] ms. fiorina: the philosopher aristotle once said that courage is the most important of virtues . without courage, the practice of the other virtues is impossible. [applause] so, we must have the courage to lead. to give us that courage, we must remember who we are. the statue of liberty was a gift from the people of france. in that iconic figure, the french saw americans as we must be. lady liberty stands tall and

strong. we must have the strongest economy, the strongest military, on the face of the planet and everyone must know it. [applause] ms. fiorina: as president, i will restore our prosperity and possibilities for every american regardless of their circumstances. i will cut our government down to size and hold it accountable. as commander-in-chief i will invest in our military, on their sacrifice, value their service, and listen to their advice. [applause] there is one

candidate in the race who says he knows more about isis than our generals. he is wrong and deeply misguided. we must also, to have the strongest military on the face of the planet, to honor and value those who served, we must care for those who have already served. after years of, talks, reform the veteran's administration from top to bottom. [applause] stain onna: it is a our nation's honor when our veteran's are not given the care that they have so richly earned. it is a stain on our nation's honor. -- veterans died the died before they got access to health care and the va hands out

bonuses. lady liberty is tall and strong, as this nation must always be. lady liberty is clear eyed and resolute. she does not shield her eyes from the realities of the world. let us be clear eyed. no, president obama, climate change is not our most pressing national security challenge. [cheers and applause] ms. fiorina: our most pressing and immediate national security challenge is radical islamic terrorism around the world and wolves home, both lone

and packs of wolves. evil that must be destroyed, and we must call it what it is. isis is evil. they are at war with us and all we represent. we must wage this war, and we must win. [applause] mean,orina: this does not this does not mean that we repeat all of the nation building and naivete, the mistakes of the iraq and afghan war. it does mean that we must deny isis territory. we cannot permit them to subjugate, terrorize, crucify, and behead their enemies. we cannot permit them to use

their territories to prepare and train for jihad around the world . we must gather our allies and lead. france, britain, and germany are threatened along with every nation in europe. kuwait, the kurds, all are fighting isis on the ground as we speak. of them has one asked the united states of america for support, weapons, material, information sharing. mostly, this administration has said "no." i will say "yes." and iran represent real threats. china is a rising adversary over the long-term. whether we confront near-term

threats and enemies, or rising adversary's over the longer standamerica must always with our and confront adversaries. do so, ourl to allies lose courage and her adversaries press forward. so, on day one of my administration, i will send an unmistakable signal to every ally we have. and every adversary. i will make 2 phone calls from the oval office. the first will be to my good friend mr. netanyahu to reassure him that the united states will stand with israel always. [cheers and applause] the second phone call will be to the supreme leader of iran. realistically, he may not take my phone call. [laughter]

ms. fiorina: but he will get my message. [applause] no deal.na: president.h a new until a ron opens every military and nuclear facility to rio anytime anywhere inspections by yours, the not united states of america will make it as difficult as possible for you to move money around the financial system. we do not need anyone's permission or cooperation, we must stop the money flow. [applause] ms. fiorina: with these 2 phone

calls, a loud and clear signal will be sent to every ally and adversary around the world. the united states of america is back in the leadership business. [applause] i understand the world into his and it. i have operated around the world business,s, in charity, and policy. i've held the highest security clearances available or a civilian. i have advised the cia, nsa, secretary of defense, and homeland security. we need a president who will speak, who will see, who will act on the truth. she must understand how truly exceptional -- [cheers and applause]

she must understand how truly exceptional this nation is and call evil diets name. -- by its name. others will not call this islamic terrorism. i will. i have the courage to lead. [applause] lady liberty stands tall and strong, as america always must. she is clear eyed and resolute. she faces out into the world, as we always must. ,he holds her torch high because she knows that she is the beginning of hope in a very troubled and dangerous world. we must nominate and elect a president who will proudly accept the mantle of leadership

that a weary world is eager for us to wear. [applause] i know what such leadership requires. i will recognize dangers with eyes wide open, and a -- and embrace with arms wide open the potential of our times. many years ago, margaret thatcher once said this. she once said -- margaret thatcher once said, i am not content to manage to the decline of a great nation. neither alive. gentlemen, we have been managing the decline of this great nation for far too long now. [applause] ms. fiorina: i have been tested,

and i am prepared, with your prayers, your support, your to leave the resurgence of this great nation at home and around the world. god bless you all. the god continue to bless most exceptional nation in the world, the united states of america. [cheers and applause] announcer: next, live, your

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